Woman Leaving a Bath House (from the series Pictures from Otsu)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman Leaving a Bath House (from the series Pictures from Otsu)

Utagawa Kunisada

Date
c. mid 1820s
Medium
color woodblock print
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

The image of a horse emerging from a gourd in the upper-right corner alludes to the story of the Daoist immortal Chokaro. It was a popular subject of otsu-e folk paintings.

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