New Year's performance, Flute Player, with a bamboo stick on the end of his flute on which two swords balance crosswise, three women watch from behind a window. This kind of entertainment, daikagura, was popular during the New Year, one person playing wind instrument, Torii Kiyonaga (mentioned on object), Japan, 1778 - 1782, paper, colour woodcut, h 706 mm ⊙ w 121 mm.