Courtesan Playing a Hand Drum

Isoda Koryusai (Japanese, 1735-1790)

c. 1775

Medium

Color woodblock print; hashira-e

Classification

Print

Dimensions

59.1 × 10.8 cm (23 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)

Culture

Japan

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia

Credit line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Ukiyo-e: pictures of the floating world
• Prints
• Music and dance
• 1700s
• Japan
• Orange