Yoshiiku - Lovesick Old Woman - Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbun

Utagawa Yoshiiku

Color newspaper insert from issue #1060. Rumors fly when Otaki, aged 87, falls in love with a worker in her son's noodle shop.

Some 115 prints are now associated with the Tokyo nichinichi shinbun series, the majority of them by Ikkeisai Yoshiiku. These were color inserts in certain editions of the newspaper, created in order to boost sales. The prints usually told of unusual, salacious and violent incidents.

Publisher: Gusokuya Kahei 

Size: 35.4 x 23.8 cm 

Condition: Great impression and color. Margins as shown, not backed. 

Date: 1875

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