A courtesan promenades at the cherry blossom festival in the Yoshiwara. Woodcut by Kitagawa, 1790.

  • Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806.
Date:
1790]
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565970i
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A courtesan promenades at the cherry blossom festival in the Yoshiwara. Woodcut by Kitagawa, 1790. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The courtesan is accompanied by a man holding a parasol, and by two young girl attendants; centre, a man smoking a tobacco pipe watches her from a bench; right, three women are in conversation

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Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], 1790]

Physical description

1 print : woodcut ; image and border 23.3 x 31.8 cm

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Lettering in Japanese

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Wellcome Collection 565970i

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