Mitsuuji and the geisha Tasogare, by Utagawa Kunisada

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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