id:			98293
accession number:	1917.97
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.97
updated:		2023-03-03 07:01:22.712000

Courtesan, early 1700s. Kaigetsudō Doshin (Japanese, active 1711–1736). Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; painting only: 91.7 x 46 cm (36 1/8 x 18 1/8 in.); including mounting: 170.2 x 67.3 cm (67 x 26 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Worcester R. Warner Collection 1917.97

title:				Courtesan
title in original language:	太夫図
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			early 1700s
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1720
current location:		
creditline:			Worcester R. Warner Collection
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Kaigetsudō Doshin (Japanese, active 1711–1736)  - artist
dates unknown
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measurements: Painting only: 91.7 x 46 cm (36 1/8 x 18 1/8 in.); Including mounting: 170.2 x 67.3 cm (67 x 26 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed: Japanese painting for amusement, this was painted by Doshin, the last leaf of Kaigetsu
(Nihon giga Kaigetsu matsuyo Doshin kore [o] zu [su])
Sealed: Ando
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Arts of Japan from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1979-03-25T05:00:00
	<i>Arts of Japan from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (organizer) (March 25-April 22, 1979).

	title:		Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235
	opening date:   2022-04-08T04:00:00
	<i>Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Later Japanese Rotation (Gallery 113)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18–July 13, 2004).

* <em>Japanese Rotation (Gallery 236)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 13–November 16, 2015).

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PROVENANCE

	Purchased with funds from Worcester R. Warner [1846–1929] and Cornelia Blakemore Warner [1858–1947] by Langdon Warner [1881–1955], as agent of the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1917
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1917–
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wall description:
Kaigetsudō Doshin was one of five painters in a studio operating under Kaigetsudō Ando (about 1671–1743) in the Asakusa area of Edo (now Tokyo). The workshop specialized in portraits, like this one, of high-ranking courtesans of the Yoshiwara district. Characteristic of those works, this painting features strong ink delineation of the subject’s twisting form and bold patterns in the kimono, as well as the absence of any sort of setting.
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