Title : Selections from the Brocade Quarter - Teahouse on Nakanocho in Yoshiwara (E-awase Kinkaisho)

Artist : Kikugawa Eizan

Date : 1815

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Source : Scholten Japanese Art
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Description : from an album of twelve prints, a geisha with resplendent robes entwined with a customer; at upper right on a serving tray a fish presented on a porcelain dish, at left is a sake kettle and cup, the folded packet of tissues nearby suggests their encounter has just begun, with karazuri ('blind-printing') on the black and white shibori lining her kosode, and metallic printing on the lacquer tray and her brocade obi, ca. 1815

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