Courtesans of Okamoto, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, by Kitao Shigemasa, 1776
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Courtesans of Okamoto, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2

Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1726-1792; Kitao Shigemasa; Japanese, 1739-1820)

1776

Medium
Color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book
Classification
Print
Dimensions
22.6 × 30.2 cm (8 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
Culture
Japan
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
Credit line
Frederick W. Gookin Collection
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