Seven Wise Women of the Pleasure Quarters
Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792)
c. mid 1780s
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24.8 x 36.6 cm (9 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of James Parmelee
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The courtesan standing at the center of this print holds a writing brush. She is identified by the fan in her left hand, which has a poem signed Hanaōgi, or Flower-Fan.
