id:			102617
accession number:	1921.1282
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.1282
updated:		2022-08-04 09:00:28.104000

Kureha of Gakuiseya, from Selection of Beauties from the Pleasure Quarters, 1770. Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724-1770). Color woodblock print; sheet: 21.6 x 14.6 cm (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from J. H. Wade 1921.1282

title:				Kureha of Gakuiseya, from Selection of Beauties from the Pleasure Quarters
title in original language:	絵本青楼美人合内  額いせ屋のくれは
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creation date:			1770
creation date earliest:		1770
creation date latest:		1770
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creditline:			Gift from J. H. Wade
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	color woodblock print
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724-1770)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 21.6 x 14.6 cm (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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

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PROVENANCE

	(Yamanaka & Co., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1921
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1921–
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wall description: 
This print of a courtesan named Kureha reading a letter comes from a five-volume series of picture books that Suzuki Harunobu designed with images of 166 beautiful courtesans of the Edo (now Tokyo) pleasure district. In intact copies of the fourth volume, of which this is a trimmed page, Kureha is the fifth and final courtesan representing her house, Gakuiseya; the house crest is a roundel formed of pine branches, seen on her outer robe’s sleeve. All poems in the volume are autumnal, and Kureha’s describes white dew on colorful maple leaves.
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