Japanese market scene: vendors are shown selling combs and hair ornaments, sandals, cloth, rice paste cakes and wigs. Colour woodcut by Shigenobu, 1865.

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Month 12, 1865
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566815i
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Japanese market scene: vendors are shown selling combs and hair ornaments, sandals, cloth, rice paste cakes and wigs. Colour woodcut by Shigenobu, 1865. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Possibly Hiroshige III

Publication/Creation

Edo [Tokyo] : Month 12, 1865.

Physical description

1 print : woodcut, printed in colours ; 36.4 x 24.6

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Lettering

[Shigenobu giga] Bears publisher's mark and censor's seal

Notes

This is possibly a New Year market. A Samurai is seen haggling with a comb-seller, top left.

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Wellcome Collection 566815i

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