Vrouw met kat op tafel, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1832

Woman lying under a table with a blanket (kotatsu) with a cat. She smokes a pipe and reads the stories of the waterfront (suikoden). The design refers to wu sung, one of the heroes of the suikoden, who killed a tiger with his bare hands. The cat represents the tiger. With two poems. Label line: mentioned on object utagawa kuniyoshi (1798 - 1861), 1832, color woodcut; embossing; line block in black with color blocks; metallic pigments collection: prints; japan (collection). Object Type: print. Date: 1832. Place of creation: Japan. Dimensions: blad Height: 209 mm (8.22 in) blad Width: 184 mm (7.24 in). Medium: paper. Vrouw met kat op tafel-Rijksmuseum RP-P-1958-495