Gen Shoji; Shiokumi goban-tsuzuki, sono san 阮小二; 汐汲五番其三 (Ruan Xiao'er; Five-sheet print of Collecting Brine, no. 3)
Series: Fuzoku onna Suikoden, ippyaku-hachinin no uchi 風俗女水滸傳壹百八人ノ内 (Elegant Women's Water Margin: From One Hundred and Eight Figures)
Woodblock print, shikishi-ban surimono. A woman identified as the Chinese hero Ruan Xiao'er, sitting on the seashore holding a tobacco pipe. Nishiki-e with embossing and metallic pigments on paper.
Circa 1828-1830.
Surimono 21.2 x 18.6 cm.
An example is in the British Museum, NO. 2008,3037.21801
2'300.-CHF