Actors in role: the sculptor Hidari Jingoro offering a cup of sake to a doll that has come to life and stepped out of its box. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856.

Large doll box with pedestal behind; a tray of food in the foreground and a sake bottle to the left of the figures

Whole-length figures

Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], Month 11, 1856.

1 print : woodcut, printed in colours

Utagawa Toyokuni-hitsu Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal, actor's role and set title Poem in the inset above with a bowl and cut blossom as illustration Incribed on the box 'Doll of the Capital [Kyoto]

Parody of thirty-six selected verses

Wellcome Collection 35850i