Main Street of the Yoshiwara on a Starlight Night, Edo period (1615–1868), 1852–64, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, 8 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (20.6 x 18.1 cm), Prints, Utagawa Kunisada II (Japanese, 1823–1880), 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
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Main Street, Yoshiwara, Starlight Night, Edo period, 1615–1868, 1852–64, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print, surimono, ink, color, paper, 8 1/8 x 7 1/8, 20.6 18.1 cm, Prints, Utagawa Kunisada II, Japanese, 1823–1880, Kunisada, pupil, Kunisada, placed, signature, lantern, foreground, marriage, Kunisada, daughter, 1846, prints, usually signed, Baidō, Kunimasa, artist, name, death, father, law, 1870 Toyokuni, IV
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