Ukiyo-e Japan Utagawa Yoshiiku Woodblock Print Courtesan at Yoshiwara Edomachi. Measurements approximately 9.5″x14″. As is: some damage to the print corner. Two women are dressed in colourful robes with crossed arms. They are underneath a plum blossom tree in bloom, at night. In the background there is a building with many rooms. He has created works which are essential to the history of ukiyo-e, such as”Twenty-eight Famous Murders with Verse”, a series of chimidoro-e (bloody paintings) which Yoshiiku and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi collaborated together, and “Shimbun (newspaper) Nishiki-e” that illustrated Meiji news articles with ukiyo-e.