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The Beautiful Women of the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara bijin awase)
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The Beautiful Women of the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara bijin awase)

Artist Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信 (Japanese, 1725 - 1770)
DateReprinted 1915
MediumPaper
DimensionsOther (Hardcover): 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (26.7 x 19.1 cm)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineGift of William Knight Zewadski
Object number2022.26.5
Collections
DescriptionA woodblock-printed book of beautiful women of Yoshiwara and its cover. Originally painted by Harunobu Suzuki and reprinted in 1915 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Beauties at a Bathhouse
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信
undated
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Incense container (kogo 香合)
Suzuki Sansei 鈴木三成
20th century
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Lady and Cupid (Kuchi-e)
Suzuki Kason 鈴木華邨
c. 1900-1910s
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Woman with a Dog
Suzuki Kason 鈴木華邨
1897
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Onna Daigaku- Culture Book for Women
Unknown Japanese Artist
Edo period (1615-1868), 1603-1867
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Yoshiwara
Sekino Jun'ichiro 関野凖一郎
1974
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Basket
Suzuki Gengensai
Taisho period (1868-1926), 1920s
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Hokusai manga (Random Sketches by Hokusai) Vol.9
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
19th century (possibly 1819)
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Yoshiwara Station on the Tokaido Highway
Andō Hiroshige 安藤広重
1840s
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Yoshiwara: A Distant View of Mount Fuji on the Left
Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige 歌川 広重
Edo period (1615-1867), 1848-1849
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Yoshiwara: Fuji River, Mizushima
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Edo period (1615-1867), 1843-1847
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Yoshiwara
Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige 歌川 広重
1855

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