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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1612.9
People
Kitao Masanobu, Japanese (Edo 1761 - 1816)
Title
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)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
Mid Edo period, dated 1784
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tōkyō
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207804

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Detached Afterword from a large accordion-fold printed book; ink on paper with printed signature reading "Kitao Rissai Masanobu" and seal reading "Soseki" as well as publisher's name and address reading "Kōshōdō Tsutaya Jūzaburō"
Dimensions
37.78 x 51.12 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: name and address of publisher (Kōshōdō Tsutaya Jūzaburō) follows afterword

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
1933.4.1612.9
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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