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Courtesans with attendants.
1790
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
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Metadata
- Publisher
- Japan : [s.n.], n.d. [1790s]
- People
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- Author
- Hosoda, Eishi, 1756-1829
- Language
- No linguistic content
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Courtesans with attendants.
- Call Number
- E Row 1/GC063/Box 01/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01131
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tq57nr138
- Publisher
- Japan : [s.n.], n.d. [1790s]
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1790
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 33 x 22.7 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)
- Censor's seal: kiwame.
- Format: Ôban tate-e.
- Item description: High-ranking courtesans, called oiran, would often have younger courtesans in training (shinzô), along with a pair of child attendants (kamuro).
- Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
- Signed: Eishi ga.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/21806d07-dbd0-42b6-be26-5c68a063f766/manifest