Japanese Woodblock Prints

Japanese Woodblock Prints

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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864) | A Good Day to Take a Bride (Yometori yoshi) | Edo period, 19th century

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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)

A Good Day to Take a Bride (Yometori yoshi)

Edo period, 19th century 


woodblock print, from the series A Floral Calendar: Women on Lucky Days (Hana goyomi kichihi sugata), signed Kunisada aratame Nidai Toyokuni ga (Pictured by Toyokuni II, changing his name from Kunisada), censor's seal Tanaka, published by Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindo), circa 1844-45


Vertical oban: 36.9 x 25 cm., 14½ x 9⅞ in.

For another example of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.40979, go to: 

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/471962/a-good-day-to-take-a-bride-yometori-yoshi-from-the-series?ctx=50a76072-338c-4b2c-ba9a-5eb33293a597&idx=5