Kyô-machi in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara Kyô-machi), No. 9 from an untitled series of a visit to the Yoshiwara (known as Series L)

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Kyô-machi in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara Kyô-machi), No. 9 from an untitled series of a visit to the Yoshiwara (known as Series L)

吉原通い　「よし原京町　九」

Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)

Japanese

Edo period

1710s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.9 x 38 cm (10 3/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.5762

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #24 (described but not illustrated); Shibui, "Masanobu no sumi-e," Ukiyo-e no kenkyû VI.3 (March 1929), #L-8

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.5762 (first edition?), RES.21.472.8 (reprint)

Signed (this sheet unsigned; signature on the last sheet of the set)
無款

ProvenanceAugust 1919, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frederick W. Gookin; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.