The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Kureha of Gakuiseya, from Selection of Beauties from the Pleasure Quarters
1770
Location: Not on view
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.- ?–1921(Yamanaka & Co., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1921–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Japan’s Floating World 日本の浮世. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1921.1282