Yoshiwara Nihontei (Nihon Embankment, Yoshiwara)

Description

Colour woodblock print, entitled Yoshiwara Nihontei (Nihon Embankment, Yoshiwara), from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), depicting Yoshiwara with many people on the embankment: Japan, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Museum reference

A.1887.745.39.31

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print

Production information

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797 - 1858, Artist
Japan, East Asia
Uoya Eikichi, Publisher

Date

1857

Materials

Paper

Associations

Depicted: Edo, Musashi province, Japan, East Asia