Here depicted is the bustling street in New Year. People are enjoying the monkey show while children playing with kite. The title means that the pleasure of Spring is worth a huge amount of money. This is a landscape making viewers happy.
Good condition, colors and impression Slightly soiled and rubbed across the screen, backing
Ochiai Yoshiiku (1833-1904) was a Ukiyoe painter as well as a creator of newspaper active from the end of Edo to the Meiji era. A pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. He used to be a rival of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi who was also a pupil of Kuniyoshi, but Yoshiiku also worked on newspaper as illustrator.
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