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Courtesan in a Room Overlooking Edo Bay

c. 1770

Isoda Koryūsai 磯田湖龍齋

(Japanese, 1735–1790)
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
color woodblock print
Measurements
Sheet: 80.6 x 25.8 cm (31 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Upson 1916.933
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Location
Not on view
Print
A tall, vertically oriented woodblock print uses fine, sweeping ink lines to outline a woman in a patterned robe holding a pipe, her head bowed beside a screen of calligraphic text. Bold vertical bars divide the view, where rhythmic, wavy strokes suggest a vast sea dotted with ships. Above, circular lines form a moon amidst layered, hatched clouds. These delicate contours and linear patterns evoke a quiet, moonlit interior scene.

Courtesan in a Room Overlooking Edo Bay

c. 1770

Isoda Koryūsai

(Japanese, 1735–1790)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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