Mitsuuji and the geisha Tasogare, by Utagawa Kunisada

An image of Mitsuuji and the geisha Tasogare in the Misujimachi pleasure quarter in Kyoto. From: Rustic Genji Suma koto (Sumagoto inaka Genji). Kunisada, Utagawa (Japanese, 1786 1865). Book printed in colour from woodblocks with metallic pigment, burnishing and blind embossing (karazuri), 3 volumes, hanshibon format, 'hybrid' binding (konsei-toji), colour-printed covers, printed silk title slips, 'numbered' ten (heaven) chi (earth) jin (man), colour-printed wrapper (fukuro) with Genji chapter symbols and scenes in shells, with wooden case (chitsu). Author: Ryûtei Tanehiko. Edo Period. 1838.

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Mitsuuji and the geisha Tasogare in the Misujimachi pleasure quarter in Kyoto. From: Rustic Genji Suma koto (Sumagoto inaka Genji). Kunisada, Utagawa (Japanese, 1786 1865). Book printed in colour from woodblocks with metallic pigment, burnishing and blind embossing (karazuri), 3 volumes, hanshibon format, 'hybrid' binding (konsei-toji), colour-printed covers, printed silk title slips, 'numbered' ten (heaven) chi (earth) jin (man), colour-printed wrapper (fukuro) with Genji chapter symbols and scenes in shells, with wooden case (chitsu). Author: Ryûtei Tanehiko. Edo Period. 1838.

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Accession Number: P.310-2013
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael F. Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 702 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 257.71kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2013:09:02 16:33:14

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19th Century 458392 Date Department Edo Period Fitz_PDP Interior/Exterior Japanese Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Utagawa Kunisada Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd bed bedchamber bedroom bolster clothes clothing costume cushion embossed erotic female forbidden love geisha hair hair ornament hairstyle hanshibon interior intimate karazuri kimono love lovers print secret sexual sexually explicit woman woodblock woodcut Artist/Maker

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