Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro
Title: print / polyptych print
Date: 1797-1799 (circa)
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Colour woodblock polyptych print. Five sheets. House-cleaning in samurai mansion in preparation for New Year holidays: Women wearing cotton robes over their kimono; on second sheet from left young manservant in process of being given bumps; on second sheet from right women coaxing young retainer to let them do bumps to him; on far-right sheet older samurai being dropped on floor after his turn.
