Eight Assemblies of the Floating Night

(Ukiyo hakkwai)

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

1847-1850

 

This series of fan prints (uchiwa) is listed as number 50 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).

Title: The Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara

Description: Geisha in male dress performing a dance called the niwaka

Title: Beauty putting her hand on a palanquin in the light of a lantern

Description: Beauty in the snow

 

Image courtesy of John Lord

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Description: Beauty beside a bath tub

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Description: Beauty in the evening on a boat enjoying green soybeans

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Description: Beauty standing by a lantern and holding an umbrella under cherry petals falling against the night sky

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