Courtesan and Client Drinking Sake on the Back of a Flying Crane

白鶴にのって空を飛ぶ遊女と客

Artist unknown, Japanese
Designer: Wayô (Japanese, active about 1765)
Designer: Kakushi (Japanese, active about 1765)
Designer: Roseki (Japanese, active about 1765)
Blockcutter: Nakamura Joryû (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1765 (Meiwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, with embossing

Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 18.8 x 26.5 cm (7 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6305

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #689; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 654

Signed Unsigned
無款

Marks Designers: Wayô, with seal Kassui (?); Kakushi, with seal Ju (?); Roseki, with seal
Blockcutter: Chôkô Nakamura Joryû
Collector's seal: Blondeau

ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Charles Jacquin; January 21, 1921, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding at January 17-22, 1921 sale of Mr. Charles Jacquin's collection at the Walpole Galleries, New York, lot #250; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.