[BLIND MASSEUR, ACCUPUNCTURIST, HIGHWAY ROBBER - ORIGINAL JAPANESE WOODBLOCK 1867]. Azuma no hana ukiyo kodan. Ichiryusai Bunsha. Yabuhara Kengyo (from the Tales of the Floating World on Eastern Brocade)
Omiya Kyusuke, 1867 (censor seal indicates year of the snake). Broadsheet (354 x 235 mm) with contemporary hand-coloring (several wormholes in the face of the robber and one above his head; portion of the paper on upper right defective, just touching text), affixed at upper corners to a sheet of..... More