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Yoshiwara Courtesan, 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: 119721

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A ranking prostitute in gorgeous robes contends with an indecisive customer grasping her lower leg. He dallies while he contemplates his options: An oiran looks good from either the side or the front...perhaps today, let's make it the side. She grows impatient: Don't say such useless, foolish thing; hurry up and come inside. The poem on the lantern at left reads: The wind of the fan Parts the mist The hollyhock s in the valley Beautiful to the eye. Japan, Asia

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Credit line: 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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