Utanosuke Playing Go

Print 10-6, Kiseido Publishing; Tokyo, Japan

Oban print by Kunisada (signing as Toyokuni III), published by Tsutaya Kichizo in 1861. From the series Meigi Sanju-rokkasen (A Selection of Thirty-Six Famous Geisha). The haiku in the panel reads:

With the first move at go

the heat of this evening

is quite forgotten.