Image / Night street in the Yoshiwara brothel district

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Title: Night street in the Yoshiwara brothel district
Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese, 1797-1861; published by Iseya Soemon
Date Created and/or Issued: after 1844
Publication Information: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection: Japanese Prints
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: An untrimmed fan-shaped print.
Inscription: Recto, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and artist's seal, paulownia crest, at l.r.
Type: image
Format: Print Full-color woodcut (nishiki-e) 9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
Form/Genre: Print
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3489n82v
1965.30.135
Subject: Japan; city and town life; intoxication; dancing; walking; men; women; street vendors; lanterns (lighting devices)

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