PaintingsJapanese18th century

Five Courtesans

early 18th cent. to mid 18th cent.

Artists

Kawamata TsuneyukiArtist

Classification

Paintings

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Century

18th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

40.1 x 51.7 cm (15 13/16 x 20 3/8 in.)

Related Artworks

Paintings

Illustrated [foreigners at] Dejima and Jūzen-ji (Nagasaki Dejima Jūzen-ji no zu) Vol. 1

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Handscroll; ink and color on paper

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Paintings

White-Robed Kannon (Byakue Kannon)

Unknown Artist, Mid to Late Edo period, circa 18th-19th century

Hanging scroll; ink on silk

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Scholar on a Bridge in a Landscape

Bunsei, 18th century

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper, with square, red, relief seal reading "Bunsei"

18th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Landscape with Mountains and Lakeshore

Unkoku Tōyo, 18th century

Six-panel folding screen; ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Landscape with Waterfall, central scroll of a set of three

Kano Yōsen'in, Mid Edo period, circa 18th century

One (the center) of a set of three hanging scrolls (each with landscape painted inside a circle); ink on silk

18th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Album of Iconographic Drawings of the Esoteric Buddhist Pantheon (Shingon sect)

Unknown Artist, 18th century

Album; ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Legend of Tawara Tōda (Tawara Tōda emaki) in Two Volumes

Unknown Artist, Mid Edo period, second half 18th century

Handscrolls: two; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Okinawan Flower-Tree

In Genryō (Zamami Yōshō), Mid Edo period, mid 18th century

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk

18th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Sparrows on a Blossoming Cherry Tree Branch

Unknown Artist, late 18th-first half 19th century

Left screen from a pair of two-panel folding screens; ink and color on gold paper

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Courtesan Eguchi as the Bodhisattva Fugen with a White Elephant

Ogawa Haritsu, 18th century

Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk; with artist's signature and seal

18th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Landscape with Fisherman, righthand scroll of a set of three

Kano Yōsen'in, Mid Edo period, circa 18th century

One (the right) of a set of three hanging scrolls (each with landscape painted inside a circle); ink on silk

18th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Landscape

Watanabe Shikō 渡辺始興, early to mid-18th century

Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold leaf on paper

18th centuryJapanese