Two beauties with a maidservant lighting their way with a lantern and carrying a shamisen box, the light from the lantern illuminates a dog running across the foreground which startles them; in the background there is some commotion with figures silhouetted against the darkness
Woodblock triptych, signed Gototei Kunisada ga, published by Mikawaya Seiemon, circa mid-1820s
Vertical oban triptych (each sheet approx. 39.7 x 27.4 cm.)

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Another impression of this print is published in Matthi Forrer, The Baur Collection, (Geneva, 1994), vol. 1, G266.
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