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遊女
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Courtesan
遊女
Japanese
Taishô era
1916 (Taishô 5), December
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
44.7 x 24 cm (17 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group
Accession Number39.285
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 27; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #58; Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), pl. 113; Itabashi Mus.,Taishôki no hanga (1988), #76
Signed
Shinsui (in block)
深水
深水
Marks
Artist's seal
ProvenanceBy 1939, Yamanaka and Company, New York; 1939, sold by Yamanaka to the MFA for $60. (Accession Date: February 9, 1939)