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Courtesan Reading a Poem


俳句を読む遊女
Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active about 1696–1716)
Publisher: Igaya Kan'emon (Bunkidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1715

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (tan-e); ink on paper; hand-colored with tan and faded green (tan-e)
Dimensions Vertical ô-ôban; 53.3 x 32.4 cm (21 x 12 3/4 in. )
Credit Line Bequest of Miss Ellen Starkey Bates
Accession Number28.198
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #31; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 17
Signed Torii Kiyomasu
鳥居清倍
Marks Artist's seal: Kiyomasu
Provenance1928, bequest of Miss Ellen Starkey Bates to the MFA (Accession Date: March 1, 1928).