Main Street of the Yoshiwara on a Starlight Night. Artist: Utagawa Kunisada II (Japanese, 1823-1880). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (20.6 x 18.1 cm). Date: 1852-64.Kunisada II, a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada, placed his signature on the lantern in the foreground. Before his marriage to Kunisada's daughter in 1846, his prints were usually signed Baido Kunimasa; from then on he used the artist's name Kunisada II, until the death of his father-in-law in 1870, when he began to use the name Toyokuni IV.Two love poems, one by Chokujuen Junma and one by Kio Enba, are hidden in the night sky. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.