Playing with Fireworks

Data

Playing with Fireworks
Book page   (Part of the set: Flowers of the Seasons)

Kitagawa Utamaro
Yoshikawa Kōbunkan
1916

2020
00027-007
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00027-007

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

A child prepares to light a firework while a courtesan relaxes with a fan, cooling herself, and another, with a baby on her back, smiles and talks with a little girl, perhaps her daughter. While we cannot tell from the colour of the sky in the print, it is probably already evening, as the baby on its mothers back helpfully holds a little lantern.

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