Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 55294
Courtesan (title not original)
- Artist / 作者
- Kitagawa Utamaro喜多川歌麿
- Date / 年代
- 1790
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Heisei / met
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 2531 × 3853 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 朝倉レン
- Rights / 権利
- CC0 1.0 only when Open Access-designated
- Attribution / 表記
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
Supervised by Takamizawa of the Takamizawa publishing house. Included with each woodblock print is a windowed folder for viewing your print. This type of print shows a woman of the pleasure quarters. The Edo period red-light districts were officially sanctioned, however, they weren't the playground for just anyone. The popular top-class geishas of the day (known as 'oiran') were depicted in this type of print. In ukiyo-e woodblock prints, this close-up portrait view of the upper body is known as an okubi-e (bust portrait). (1) This item is either untitled or the title is unknown.
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