Hirokage - Unfortunate Customer in Akasaka

Utagawa Hirokage

Fun design from the series "Edo Meisho Doke" (Comedy Scenes in famous Places in The title is Akasaka (Unfortunate customer at the barber shop in Akasaka). We can see the barber shaved off too much of the customer's hair.

Utagawa Hirokage (歌川 広景), also known as Ichiyūsai Hirokage, was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, who was active from about 1855 to 1865. He was a pupil of Utagawa Hiroshige I. From 1860 to 1861.

Hirokage designed the series of ōban size prints titled Edo meisho dōke zukushi (Joyful Events in Famous Places in Edo). His reputation is based primarily upon this series and his 1859 triptych Aomono sakana gunzei daikassen no zu (The Great Battle between the Fruits and Vegetables and the Fish)

Condition: Good color. Print is not backed, damage to the border and some small repairs as shown.

Date: 1860

Published by: Kinkōdō (Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke).

Genre: Ukiyo-e Parody Print

Medium: Woodblock Print