Utagawa Yoshiiku - The Five Nations Enjoying a Drunken Revel at the Gankirō Tea House - 12th month, 1860 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal

A convivial crowd of foreign and Japanese figures fills three joined panels in this 1860 woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshiiku, showing a night of celebration at the Gankirō Tea House.

Visual Elements & Composition

The print is a ukiyo-e triptych, its three connected panels reading as one continuous scene. A woman in a patterned floral kimono stands in the foreground, while women in Western dress lean from a balcony above. A man in a black coat gestures mid-conversation, and a bearded man in a grey hat sits at the right edge. A woman in a blue robe wears a feathered headdress, and seated figures gather around a tea table. Deep blue, salmon red, teal, cream and black carry the palette, and vertical title cartouches frame the scene.

Meaning & Symbolism

The title names the "Five Nations," and the crowd is built around that idea: people from different countries sharing one table and one celebration. Yoshiiku set this revelry in the Gankirō Tea House during the late Edo period, when the meeting of Japanese and foreign visitors was a subject of curiosity and social change. The work turns that encounter into a scene of communal joy, celebrating cultural intersection and the pleasure of mixing with strangers.

Bringing the Triptych to a Single Sticker

A kiss-cut sticker is cut to its own outline, so the composition keeps the edges of the figures and cartouches that define it. Three panels that once ran side by side become one compact image, with the balcony, the tea table and the foreground kimono all visible in a single glance. It is a fitting form for a print about a gathering, bringing the revel onto a laptop, journal or notebook.