The Taira Pageboys (Heike no kaburo), from the series Characters from the Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of the Minamoto and Taira Clans (Seisuiki jinpin sen)

「盛衰記人品箋　平家の禿童」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Eshima (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1840 (Tenpô 11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 23.8 × 18 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Source unidentified

Accession Number2009.4991.59

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S15.1, photo p. 111

Signed Chôôrô Kuniyoshi ga
朝櫻楼国芳画

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし