EditorialThe Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Shinokobe Shoji Yukihira in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773. Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1768-1778. Dimensions: 31 x 14.7 cm (12 3/16 x...
EditorialThe Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Ike no Shoji in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth Month, 1747. Torii Kiyonobu II; Japanese, active c. 1725-61. Date: 1747. Dimensions: 11 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. Color woodblock ...
EditorialThe Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Ike no Shoji and Segawa Kikujiro I as Hitachi Kohagi in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1747. Torii Kiyonobu II; Japanese, active c. 1725-61. Date: 1747. Dimens...
EditorialCourtesan Looking Back at Shadows on the Shoji. Attributed to Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: 1765-1775. Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 7 3/8 in. Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialA geisha leans on the box of her shamisen, A geisha reads a letter by candlelight, while she leans against the chest containing her shamisen (stringed instrument). A willow can be seen in the garden through the paper (shoji) windows. The poem on the wa...
EditorialA geisha leans on the box of her shamisen, A geisha reads a letter by candlelight, while she leans against the chest containing her shamisen (stringed instrument). A willow can be seen in the garden through the paper (shoji) windows. The poem on the wa...
EditorialA tea-house waitress standing in front of the shoji upon which appear shadows of two women within the house, one of whom is reaching out and grasping the waitress' skirt, still image, Prints, 1794 - 1795.
EditorialA girl, asleep before a hibachi, with a white cat curled up on her lap, and behind her a woman and a young girl have fastened a rope to her obi and are tying the other end to a post. The comb has been taken from her back hair and fixed above her forehe...
EditorialYui, from the series, 'The Highest Ranking Geisha's Journey', Keisei Eisen, Japanese, 1790 1848, Woodblock print in colored ink on paper, The woman sitting against a shoji screen, resting on one arm, sits in contemplation. The framework of the building...
EditorialPart of a triptych: 'The Fox Forfeit Game', Kikugana Eizan, Woodblock print in colored ink on paper, Modesty decorated this woman kneels before us. Just in front of her feet lay a booklet suggesting that she is about to read to us a set of poems. A liv...