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Utagawa Kunisada I

No. 37, from the series "That Purple Image in Magic Lantern Shows (Sono sugata yukari no utsushie)"

c. 1847/52
Color woodblock print; oban
25.2 × 36.3 cm (9.9 × 14.3 in)

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