Woman Putting Out a Light (from the series Modern Customs: Frost Beneath the Stars)

Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1865)

c. 1820

Medium
color woodblock print
Classification
Print
Dimensions
Sheet: 38.8 x 26.8 cm (15 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
Credit line
Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

The woman's under robe has a painted collar signed Gototei, the secondary name of Kunisada.