Yoshiwara Courtesan and Secret Lover, from Selections from the Brocade Quarter (E-awase kingaishō)

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Yoshiwara Courtesan and Secret Lover, from Selections from the Brocade Quarter (E-awase kingaishō)

Kikukawa EizanLinkedCulture matchlcp-562a97810769

Date
c. 1815
Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
119722

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A prostitute and her lover frantically make love. He grasps her upper thigh as she braces herself with her foot on a lacquer cabinet beside a folding screen at left. She is relieved to finally be in the arms of her mabu (non-paying lover): Out of all the many men I've slept with, I promised myself deeply to you, and I sneak out to meet you- but when we part my feelings grow even stronger. He reassures her: Endure the hard times and the suffering, and at the end we will be man and wife. Just look forward to that day. Japan, Asia

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The William Hood Dunwoody Fund, the Louis W. Hill, Jr. Fund, gift of funds from the Asian Art Affinity Group, and the Japanese Art Miscellaneous Purchase Fund

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