Japanese prints of the XVIII –XIX century from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts | Catalogue

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1797 - 1861

The Habit of Book-Reading
From the series “48 Customs of Ukiyo” (“Ukiyo shijühachi kuse”)

Material; technique:	Japanese paper (washi); color wood-block print.
Format:	Ōban
Dimensions:	343 x 240 mm
Signature:	Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga
Production centre:	Edo (Tokyo)
Publisher:	Kazusaya Iwazō
Censor seal:	Kinugasa Fusajirō
Provenance:	Rumyantsevsky Muzei (Rumyantsev Museum) (Moscow), at the PMFA since 1924
Exhibitions:	This floating world is an uncomparable creation!
Inv.:	А-29621