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Jun 26, 2014
Seven Wise Women of the Pleasure Quarters
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)
(1615-1868)
Color woodblock print
Sheet: 24.8 x 36.6 cm (9 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.)
Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.1022
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This print is a play on the Chinese theme of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.
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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.
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