Harunobu | Picking Plum Blossoms from a Neighbors Garden Shin-Hanga | 新版画 Title: The Actor Bando Mitsugorô

Title: The Actor Bando Mitsugorô II as Ishii Genzô | 二代目坂東三津五郎の石井源蔵 | Bando Mitsugoro no Ishii Genzo

and other entertainers who worked as illicit prostitutes

The saturated colors and stylized forms in such prints helped inspire the Impressionist and Post-impressionist movements decades later

Medium: Woodblock Print | 木版画Series: An Illustrated Collection of Famous Japanese Puppets of the Osaka BunrakuzaSize: 26

Harunobu | Picking Plum Blossoms from a Neighbors Garden Shin-Hanga | 新版画 Title: The Actor Bando MitsugorôArtist: Suzuki Harunobu (c. 1725 15 July 1770)Date: 1766 67Publisher: Unknown (~18th C.), Sheisha (1964)Title: Picking Plum Blossoms from a Neighbors GardenMedium: Offset lithograph printed on tradtional Japanese handmade washi paperSize: Envelope 31. 5 cm x 46 cm The Sheisha Masterpieces collection includes what many art historians consider the rarest and most representative works in the history of ukiyo e. In order to make these rare works more