Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District
1771 · Color woodblock print
Dimensions (27.4 x 17 cm)
Shinno, Prince of Thunder (far left), Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo (second from left), Nakamura Sukegoro II as Seitaka Doji (second from right), and Bando Mitsugoro I as Kongara Doji (far right), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771
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Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District (1771) by Katsukawa Shunsho, Color woodblock print.
About Katsukawa Shunsho
Katsukawa Shunshō ( 1726 – 1793) was a Japanese painter and print maker in the ukiyo-e style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school. Shunshō studied under Miyagawa Shunsui, son and student of Miyagawa Chōshun, both equally famous and talented ukiyo-e artists.
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