Sleeve-Letter Takasago (Sodefumi Takasago), no. 2 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

Sleeve-Letter Takasago (Sodefumi Takasago), no. 2 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

Okumura Masanobu

1711 - 1740 Woodblock print Print

1925.1882

Art Institute of Chicago

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