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Yoshiwara Street Scene: Women Walking


吉原の人物(女)
Artist unknown, Japanese
After: Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
19th century

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 19.6 x 27.6 cm (7 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3206.7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné A print by Toyokuni I based on the same Moronobu original: Forrer, Surimono (2013), #45; Rijksmuseum, Surimono: Poetry and Image (2000), #45
DescriptionLeft sheet of a pair, with 17.3206.8.

According to Forrer 2013, the various prints of this subject are based on a painting by Moronobu once in the collection of Santô Kyôden (Kitao Masanobu). He mentions (but does not illustrate) two prints in Leiden, probably from the 1870s, that may be the same as MFA 17.3206.7 and 17.3206.8.
Signed Nihonga Hishikawa Moronobu zu
Marks Artist's seal: Moronobu