id: 111672 accession number: 1930.202 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.202 updated: 2022-03-16 09:00:21.269000 New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital, early 1830s. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861). Color woodblock print; sheet: 24.5 x 36.9 cm (9 5/8 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore 1930.202 title: New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital title in original language: 新吉原 series: series in original language: 東都名所 creation date: early 1830s creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1834 current location: creditline: Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: color woodblock print department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861) - artist One of the principal Ukiyo-e artists of the late Edo period. --- measurements: Sheet: 24.5 x 36.9 cm (9 5/8 x 14 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga Publisher: Kagaya Kichibei (Kagaya, Ryogoku, emblem) Censorship Seal: kiwame translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Promenades, Pageants, Processions, and Pilgrimages opening date: 1981-08-25T04:00:00 Promenades, Pageants, Processions, and Pilgrimages. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 25, 1981-January 3, 1982). title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation opening date: 2018-07-11T04:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 11, 2018-January 7, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Yamanaka & Co., New York, NY, sold to Edward L. Whittemore) date: footnotes: citations: Edward L. Whittemore [1862-1930], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1930 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1930- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In this dramatic night scene, Kuniyoshi emphasized the moon and its huge glowing halo. He employed Western-style shadows beneath the figures and the palanquin. The man at the center is singing with his mouth wide open. Perhaps he is headed home after drinking in New Yoshiwara, the pleasure quarter, visible only as a series of low rooflines in the background beyond the rice paddies. The chatting pair and wealthy passenger inside the palanquin may be on their way to the pleasure quarter. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Howard Conley Hollis. "The Edward Loder Whittemore Collection of Japanese Prints." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 4 (1930): 64-66. page number: Mentioned: pp. 64-66 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137291 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.202/1930.202_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.202/1930.202_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.202/1930.202_full.tif