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Beauty (Taifu)
late 18th century - early 19th century
Yokoi Kinkoku
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
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Elegant Fresh Foods (Three Courtesans at a Drinking Party)
mid 1800s - circa 1810
Kikugawa Eizan
oban (large size) nishiki-e (full-color woodblock print) on paper
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First Designs of Model Young Leaves: the Courtesan Karauta of the Chôjiya, accompanied by her attendants Matsuno and Takeno
circa 1777-1782
Isoda Koryūsai
Oban (large size) nishiki-e (full-color woodblock print) on paper
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First Snowfall on the Lovers’ Journey to His Hometown: Onoe Kikugorō IV as Tsuchiya Umegawa
1854
Utagawa Kunisada
woodblock print on paper
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Courtesan in an iris-patterned robe: “June” in a series of Twelve Months
circa 1714
Kaigetsudō Dohan
Kakemono-e (oversize) sumizurii-e (monochrome woodblock print) on paper
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Standing Courtesan, after Miyagawa Chôshun
1901
Kobayashi Bunshichi
hand-colored woodblock print on silk
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Courtesans of the Chôjiya: Hinatsuru and Her Attendant
circa 1790
Kitagawa Utamaro
Ôban (large size) nishiki-e (full-color woodblock print) on paper
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Courtesan and her retinue on an outing (part of triptych)
late 1780
Utagawa Toyokuni I
large full-color woodblock print (nishiki e) on paper, large-format (ôban), part of triptych
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Grand Interior View of a Courtesan House in the Yoshiwara District (Yoshiwara o-magaki no zu, one of pentaptych)
circa 1811-1813
Katsushika Hokusai
color woodblock print on paper, ôban tate-e size
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Grand Interior View of a Courtesan House in the Yoshiwara District (Yoshiwara o-magaki no zu, one of pentaptych)
1811-1813
Katsushika Hokusai
color woodblock print on paper, ôban tate-e size
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Grand Interior View of a Courtesan House in the Yoshiwara District (Yoshiwara o-magaki no zu, one of pentaptych)
1811-1813
Katsushika Hokusai
woodblock print on paper, ôban tate-e size
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Sankord as Courtesan
circa 1820-1830
Utagawa Kunisada
woodblock print on paper
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Courtesan on Promenade: left page of a two-page book llustration
circa 1720-1740
Nishikawa Sukenobu
monochrome woodblock print on paper
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Lovebirds and Lightening in the Summer Rain: Iwai Matsunosuke IV as Katsuragi and Nakamura Tsuruzō II as a House Owner
1886
Toyohara Chikanobu
woodblock print on paper
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Actors Compared with the Thirty Six Poetic Immortals: Bandō Shūka I as Urazato
1852
Utagawa Kunisada
woodblock print on paper
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