# Seven Wise Women of the Pleasure Quarters

- By: Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792)
- Date: c. mid 1780s
- Medium: color woodblock print
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Sheet: 24.8 x 36.6 cm (9 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: Bequest of James Parmelee
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1022)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.1022/1940.1022_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.