Setsugekka: Edo, Yoshiwara hana, Katsuragi taiyu, Fuwa Banza, Nagoya Sanza. (Flowers of Yoshiwara, the Courtesan Katsuragi, Fuwa Banzaemon and Nagoya Sanza).

To help her husband Nagoya Sanza, Iwahashi sold herself into prostitution, becoming a prestigious courtesan by the name of ‘Katsuragi’. Despite her fame and fortune, she still loved Sanza and is shown here thinking of him as cherry blossoms fall outside her room. Inset Nagoya Sanza (left) is shown fighting in the main street of the Yoshiwara with Fuwa Banzaemon, who had stolen a precious scroll that Sanza was to protect. From the series Setsugekka. ‘Snow, Moon, Flowers’