Actor Asao Yoroku II as a Firefighter, from the series Flowers of Edo, Excitement at Night (Edo no hana yoru no nigiwai) - 江戸花夜の賑 二代目浅尾与六 「与六 浅田屋 浅尾 尾長 」
Artist
Utagawa Yoshitsuya
(1822 Japan - 1866 Japan)
Date1860
Mediumwoodblock print on paper
DimensionsSheet: 14 1/2 × 10 in. (36.8 × 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsPrints & Printmaking
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, from the collection of Judith Weischel Carr, gift of Peter Eller
Object numberPC2020.5.20.A
DescriptionA color woodblock print (one in a polyptych) depicting a figure in profile holding a lantern in one hand and a tool in the other while wearing a robe with a dragon on the back. Several silhouetted figures in the background hold lanterns marked with inscriptions that identify them by name.On View
Not on viewUtagawa Hiroshige
ca. 1835–42
Utagawa Kunisada
19th century
ca. 1910