Main Street of the Yoshiwara on a Starlight Night
Utagawa Kunisada II Japanese
Not on view
Kunisada II, a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada, placed his signature on the lantern in the foreground. Before his marriage to Kunisada's daughter in 1846, his prints were usually signed Baidō Kunimasa; from then on he used the artist's name Kunisada II, until the death of his father-in-law in 1870, when he began to use the name Toyokuni IV.
Two love poems, one by Chokujuen Junma and one by Kiō Enba, are hidden in the night sky.
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