Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: Kemuri, hamigaki… けむり,はみがき (Smoke, teeth cleaning…) / Hyakushiki menso 百色面情 (One Hundred Shades of Facial Expressions)
Date: 1836 (c.)
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Woodblock print, oban yoko-e. Eight grotesque busts showing comedic expressions in various ways, top: kemuri (smoke) (r), hamigaki (tooth-powder)(rc), kimotsubushi (great surprise (lc), kodomo-ayashi (unidentified)(l); bottom: joruri (unidentified)(r), mimikaki (ear pick)(rc), ohaguro (tooth-blacking) (lc), and ude-oshi (arm-wrestling).