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Shellfish and Apparitions of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter

Triptych of hanging scrolls with inscribed mountings; painting: ink and color on silk; calligraphy: ink on silk mounting fabric, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan

Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Friends of Asian Art Gifts 2020

Chōbunsai Eishi (Artist) Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo) (Calligrapher)

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Japan

Title: Shellfish and Apparitions of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter

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Triptych of hanging scrolls with inscribed mountings; painting: ink and color on silk; calligraphy: ink on silk mounting fabric, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan.

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The Courtesans Azumaya and Kokonoe of the Matsukane House, from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

The courtesans Hitomoto and Tagasode of the Daimonji House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Afterword by Akerakan Shujin (Akera Kankō) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Tōjin, from the series Amusements of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara (Seirō Niwaka zensei asobi)

Women dressed as Chinese foreigners for the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival....

Perspective View of Shin Yoshiwara in the Evening (Uki-e Shin Yoshiwara yūgure zu)

Shin Yoshiwara Genre Scene (Shin Yoshiwara fūzoku ga)

The courtesans Utagawa and Nanasato of the Yotsuba House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

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