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Jul 29, 2014
Kureha of Gakuiseya, from Selection of Beauties from the Pleasure Quarters
Kureha of Gakuiseya, from Selection of Beauties from the Pleasure Quarters
絵本青楼美人合内 額いせ屋のくれは
1770
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信
(Japanese, 1724-1770)
(1615-1868)
Color woodblock print
Sheet: 21.6 x 14.6 cm (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.)
Gift from J. H. Wade 1921.1282
Location
Exhibition
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This print of a courtesan named Kureha reading a letter comes from a five-volume series of picture books that Suzuki Harunobu designed with images of 166 beautiful courtesans of the Edo (now Tokyo) pleasure district. In intact copies of the fourth volume, of which this is a trimmed page, Kureha is the fifth and final courtesan representing her house, Gakuiseya; the house crest is a roundel formed of pine branches, seen on her outer robe’s sleeve. All poems in the volume are autumnal, and Kureha’s describes white dew on colorful maple leaves.
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