Eighth month: Viewing the twelfth stage of the moon from the series Actors in the...

Actors in the Twelve Months (Yakusha juni tsuki). From a series of 36 prints (Sanjurokuban tsuzuki). Eighth month: Viewing the twelfth stage of the moon (Hachigatsu: junidan tsukimi no zu). Triptych. From a set each representing one of the twelve months. Summer occupations - music . 9 figures (5 ladies) in a house opening out to a garden with stream. Shrubs as background to the group. Sheet III: A group of three figures, from left a seated actor (with mon) playing a koto, seated with right foot tucked up and a discarded geta (clog) on garden ground below; other leg resting on ground. Actor has smoking box beside him. To rear of these two a seated lady playing another shamisen. To her rear a table with food utensils and screens with calligraphy. A standing lamp between these two groups. Publisher: Mikawaya. Kiwame seal. Toyokuni, Utagawa I