Japanese Print "Yaozen Restaurant in Sanya of the Asakusa District of Edo" by Utagawa Hiroshige

Japanese Print "Yaozen Restaurant in Sanya of the Asakusa District of Edo" by Utagawa Hiroshige, 歌川広重 (Utagawa Hiroshige I 歌川 広重)

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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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

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