Actor Arashi Kichisaburo as a Firefighter, from the series Flowers of Edo, Excitement at Night (Edo no hana yoru no nigiwai)
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.C
DescriptionA color woodblock print (one in a polyptych) depicting a figure wearing a colorful robe and clutching a sash of fabric across his chest. Faint silhouettes hold lanterns in the background. The scene takes place at night.On View
Not on view
Utagawa Hiroshige
ca. 1835–42
unidentified
17th - early 21st century
