KORYUSAI Kotohajime

KORYUSAI (w c 1766-83)
Children Playing (First Day)
Signed:  Koryusai
Series:  Fanciful First Days of Starting (Furyu go Kotohajime)
Publisher; Unknown
ca 1770s

Chuban (approx 7.25″ X 10.5″).    Generally good condition.  Some fading, rubbing and a few thin areas.  Two pinholes..

Prints depicting children were fairly common in the mid-1700s.  Perhaps children made up a portion of the print market at that time (subsidized by their parents).  Koryusai would at least 11 series of children.