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Old and NewTales of the Yoshiwara: The Big Spenders in the Age of Takao, Illustrated by Hishikawa Moronobu (Takao no zensei yasune no gunju, Kokon Yoshiwara kidan, Hishikawa Moronobu zu)


「高尾(たかお)の全盛(ぜんせい) 安直(やすね)の群集(ぐんしゅう) 古今吉原奇談(ここんよしわらきだん) 菱川師宣図」
After: Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694)
Publisher: Shinagawaya Kyûsuke, later Sugiura Asajirô (Tôseidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1851 (Kaei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions 33.3 x 52.5 cm (13 1/8 x 20 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.830
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.830, 21.7187

Mid 19-century reproduction of a late 17th-century print.
Signed Hishikawa Moronobu zu
菱川師宣図
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross