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Original Perspective Picture of the Great Gate and Naka-no-chô in the Shin Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Ômonguchi Naka-no-chô uki-e kongen)


「新吉原大門口中之町 浮絵根元」
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Publisher: Okumuraya
Japanese
Edo period
about 1745 (Enkyô 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Horizontal ô-ôban; 29.7 x 42.2 cm (11 11/16 x 16 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.386
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kishi, Edo no enkin-hô (1994), fig. 62; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 10, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, I (1988), pl. 62; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 31; Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #25
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.386, 21.5773
Signed Nihon Tôbu gakô Hôgetsudô Tanchôsai Okumura Masanobu shôhitsu (in left margin, cut off of this impression)
(日本東武画工 方月堂丹鳥斎奥村政信正筆)
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross