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Seven Wise Women of the Pleasure Quarters

青楼志知賢女

c. mid 1780s

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川 春章

(Japanese, 1726–1792)
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
color woodblock print
Measurements
Sheet: 24.8 x 36.6 cm (9 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.1022
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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This print is a play on the Chinese theme of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.

Description

The courtesan standing at the center of this print holds a writing brush. She is identified by the fan in her left hand, which has a poem signed Hanaōgi, or Flower-Fan.
A vertically oriented color woodblock print on tan paper depicts seven women in patterned kimonos and ornate hairstyles. At the top, three women stand; the figure on the right holds a vertical scroll. In the center, three more women overlap in layered garments of muted red and green. Below them, a woman sits behind a long, stringed instrument. To her right, a woman stands holding a small slip of paper.

Seven Wise Women of the Pleasure Quarters

c. mid 1780s

Katsukawa Shunshō

(Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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