Japanese Print "Yaozen Restaurant in Sanya of the Asakusa District of Edo" by Utagawa Hiroshige
Artist:Utagawa Hiroshige
Title:Yaozen Restaurant in Sanya of the Asakusa District of Edo
Date:late 1830s
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Source:Worcester Art Museum
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Description:
Although the Tokugawa shogunate promoted the code of Bushido and the Confucian precepts of filial piety and correct deportment, many samurai succumbed to Edo-city pleasures in their leisure time. They socialized with commoners in restaurants and teahouses to compose verses or practice painting and calligraphy; some also visited brothels in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters and theatre performances, often wearing large straw hats to hide their faces. This print is from a series advertising famous Edo restaurants, partly by the use of humorous ve
