MIRROR OF THE VAGINA: WIFE ON THE STREET IN THE NIGHT (Utagawa Toyokuni)

Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: kuchi-e 口絵 frontispiece illustrations

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国 (1769-1825)
From the book: Picture Book, Mirror of the Vagina 絵本開中鏡, vol. 2 中
Print subject: A woman hurries down the street in the night. She is a wife on her way to a mistress’s house. Her heart and her kimono are in disarray. She is unsteady on her feet, determined to hurt the other woman’s face and drag her husband home.

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Year: later edition of a work from 1823
Condition: fair, partially trimmed margins
Dimensions: 13,5 x 21 cm

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