Japanese Print "Rosei kantan issui no yume 魯生耶潭一炊夢 (Lu Sheng's Transient Dream at Handan)" by Kikugawa Eizan
Artist:Kikugawa Eizan
Title:Rosei kantan issui no yume 魯生耶潭一炊夢 (Lu Sheng's Transient Dream at Handan)
Date:1820 (c.)
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Source:British Museum
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Description:
Colour woodblock-printed triptych, mitate-e. Parody of Lu Sheng's (J: Rosei) dream, here dreaming of the pleasures of contemporary Edo (Tokyo) at Shinagawa: Greeting sunrise in boat on Edo Bay, feasting in restaurant, being entertained to classical music; joining procession of top-rank courtesan under cherry-blossom. Inscribed, signed and marked.
