Courtesan Riding on a Crane

鶴に乗って空を飛ぶ遊女

Japanese

Edo period

1765 (Meiwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and limited color on paper

Dimensions Koban; 18.8 x 20 cm (7 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1257

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #688; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 653

DescriptionThe date is on the scroll; the lines of the kimono form the numbers for the long months, and the lines of the bird form the short months.

Signed Unsigned
無款

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross