Utagawa Toyoharu: Perspective picture of the twelve movements of a musical performance. - Library of Congress

Artist: Utagawa Toyoharu

Title: Perspective picture of the twelve movements of a musical performance.

Date: [between 1772 and 1774]

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Print shows a long hall receding into the background for a perspective view, with eight women playing musical instruments arranged along the sides and in the rear is a woman playing a koto; in the foreground, outside the building, a women is carrying a lantern(?), another person is playing a flute (with a tiger-like tail extending from beneath the clothing), and a man or god crouches in the far right foreground.

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