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Courtesan Reading a Letter under a Mosquito Net


蚊帳の外に文読み美人
Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active about 1696–1716)
Japanese
Edo period
1710s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (tan-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Vertical ô-ôban; 46.6 x 31.7 cm (18 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1337
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 1 (1960), #62 (intact); Ukiyo-e zenshû (1957), pl. 30 (intact)
DescriptionOn the missing bottom section is the mark of publisher Nakajimaya.
Signed Torii Kiyomasu
鳥居清倍
Marks Artist's seal: Kiyomasu
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross