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Yoshiwara pleasure quarters
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- c. 1670 - c. 1685
- Artist/maker
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formerly attributed to Miyagawa Chōshun (1683 - 1753) (artist)style of Hishikawa Moronobu (c. 1618 - 1694) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 139.5 x 91.2 cm (height x width)
painting 53 x 77.5 cm (height x width)
along roller 97 cm (length)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by C. W. Christie Miller, 1959.
- Accession no.
- EA1959.87
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Further reading
Katz, Janice, Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with an introductory essay by Oliver Impey (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), no. 52 on pp. 178-180, pp. 13 & 153, illus. pp. 150-151, 178-179, & 181
Glossary
Yoshiwara
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Yoshiwara
The Yoshiwara was the licensed pleasure district in Edo (Tokyo), where courtesans resided.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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