PrintsJapanese

Perspective View of Dancers in an Interior

Artists

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Right panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" diptych; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

39.8 x 26.4 cm (15 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

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Woman Seated at Low Writing Table (Bundai), from the series Seven Designs for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika shichiban tsuzuki), with poems by Shunryūsha Chikauo (Kaneuo) and Hakumōsha Kazumori (Banshu, Manshu)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1826

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