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Scenes in the Yoshiwara Pleasure District


Yoshiwara fûzoku zu byôbu
吉原風俗図屏風
Attributed to: Miyagawa Chôshun (Japanese, 1682–1752?)
Japanese
Edo period
about Hôei (1704–11) - early Kyôhô (1716–36) eras

Medium/Technique Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, gold, and silver on paper
Dimensions Image: 83.2 x 266.6 cm (32 3/4 x 104 15/16 in.)
Overall: 94.5 x 279 cm (37 3/16 x 109 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4624
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 11; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 94
Signed No signature or seal.
ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the Museum