1933.4.1612.7: The courtesans Koi Murasaki and Hana Murasaki of the Kado Tama 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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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1612.7
- People
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Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Japanese (Edo 1761 - 1816)
- Title
- The courtesans Koi Murasaki and Hana Murasaki of the Kado Tama 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)
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami: Kado Tamaya no Koi Murasaki, H
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- Mid Edo period, 1784
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tōkyō
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/207771
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Detached illustration from a large accordion-fold printed book; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.9 x 51.1 cm (14 15/16 x 20 1/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1612.7
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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