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 series: series in original language: creation date: 1770 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1770 current location: creditline: Gift from J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: color woodblock print department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724-1770) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 21.6 x 14.6 cm (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235 opening date: 2022-04-08T04:00:00 Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Yamanaka & Co., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1921 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1921– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1282/1921.1282_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1282/1921.1282_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1282/1921.1282_full.tif