
Cleveland Museum of Art
Woman of the Yoshiwara Reading Scroll
Kitagawa UtamaroLinkedCulture matchlcp-39e686abde8d
- Date
- 1753–1806
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 118840
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- Credit line
- Bequest of James Parmelee
- Provenance
- ?–1940: James Parmelee [1855–1931], Cleveland, OH and Washington, DC, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1940–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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