Cleveland Museum of Art
Seven Wise Women of the Pleasure Quarters
Katsukawa Shunshō
- Date
- c. mid 1780s
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The courtesan standing at the center of this print holds a writing brush. She is identified by the fan in her left hand, which has a poem signed Hanaōgi, or Flower-Fan. This print is a play on the Chinese theme of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.
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