Takao of the Miuraya, Kyô-machi Itchôme, Shin Yoshiwara, Edo, (Right) Sheet of a Triptych ([Migi], sanpukutsui no uchi)

「（右）三幅対之内　江戸　新吉原京町壱丁め　　三うらや太夫高尾」

Tsunekawa Shigenobu (Japanese, active about 1720–1740)
Publisher: Yamatoya (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1730

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa

Dimensions Hosoban; 31.9 x 14.9 cm (12 9/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.443b

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pls. 129-30; similar designs (anon.): Ukiyo-e zenshû I (1957), figs. 79-80

DescriptionTwo sheets of a triptych of Courtesans of the Three Cities: 06.443a (left) and 06.443b (right).

Signed Nihon gakô Tsunekawa Shigenobu hitsu
日本画工　常川重信筆

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross