House of Pleasure

Teinai yûraku zu
遊里風俗図屏風

Japanese

Edo period

late Kan'ei (1624–44) era

Medium/Technique One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gold-leafed paper

Dimensions Image: 104.4 × 182.8 cm (41 1/8 × 71 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.287

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), pp. 140-1; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 1(2)

Provenance1906 gift of Denman Waldo Ross