
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Courtesan Karauta of Chojiya Reading a Book (from the series Six Authors of the Green Houses)
Kitagawa Utamaro
- Date
- late 1790s
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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