The Ha Fire Brigade, Group 1 (Ha gumi, Ichibangumi), from the series Flowers of Edo for Children’s Amusement (Edo no hana kodomo asobi) 「は組　一番組」　「江戸の花子供遊び」

Object Details

• Artist

  Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎 (active ca. 1850-1880)

• Publisher

  Hirookaya Kosuke 広岡屋幸助 (active ca. 1858-1874)

• Block carver

  Tsuge Shojiro 津下庄治郎

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Underdogs and Antiheroes: Japanese Prints from the Moskowitz Collection (March 19, 2022 - February 5, 2023)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection

• Type

  Print

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• Name

  Tsuge, Shojiro, Hirookaya, Kosuke, Utagawa, Yoshitora

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Firefighter, The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints