Kitao Shigemasa
1781～89

Shigemasa was the founder of Kitao-school and he produced many actor prints. During the An’ei and Ten’mei era (c.1772-1789), he produced pictures of classical and elegant beauties. He produced many illustrations in the book style print hanpon but he did not produced much polychrome Ichimai-e or single sheet print, such as this work. As for landscape paintings, he produced perspective picture uki-e to draw landscape. This work is also an uki-e and in this work, he used bird’s-eye view composition as if to look down the landscape from the higher position and illustrated the parts that cannot be observed in the regular composition.