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Kyô-machi in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara Kyô-machi), from an untitled series of a visit to the Yoshiwara (known as Series L)


吉原通い 「よし原京町」
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Japanese
Meiji-era reprint of Edo-period design?

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26.2 x 37.7 cm (10 5/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession NumberRES.21.472.8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Shibui, "Masanobu no sumi-e," Ukiyo-e no kenkyû VI.3 (March 1929), #L-5; the series: Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #24
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