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Utagawa Toyokuni I

The Eighth Month (Hachi gatsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu junikagetsu)"

c. 1793
Color woodblock print; chuban
25.7 × 19.1 cm (10.1 × 7.5 in)

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