Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Women of the Chojiya pleasure house.
Call Number
E Row 1/GC063/Box 02/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01144
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6108vb38t
Publisher
Japan : [s.n.], 1776, 1st month.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1776
Extent
1 item ; sheet 26 x 30.9 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.
References
Seirô bijin awase sugata kagami (Mirror of fair women of the Green Houses).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Ehon (color woodblock picture book)
Format: Two-page book illustration.
Item description: "Green Houses" were a name used for the brothels and tea houses of the Yoshiwara pleasure district in Edo. The beauties are named and labeled (right to left) Hinazuru, Karauta, and Meizan. The published work is a three-volume set with this two-page illustration from pages 14 and 15 of Volume One.
Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.

Discovery Information

Subject
Geishas—Japan—In art
Genre painting

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/180d7bfa-67ed-4faf-8958-5332ad995316/manifest