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Kitagawa Tsukimaro (Kikumaro, active circa 1794-1836) | The courtesan Katsuyama of the Nakataya house and two kamuro (Nakataya uchi Katsuyama) | Edo period, 19th century

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Kitagawa Tsukimaro (Kikumaro, active circa 1794-1836)

The courtesan Katsuyama of the Nakataya house and two kamuro (Nakataya uchi Katsuyama)

Edo period, 19th century


woodblock print, from the series Modern Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters in Full Flower (Seiro toji zensei no kimi), signed Kikumaro hitsu (Brush of Kikumaro), published by Murataya Jirobei (Eiyudo), circa early 1800s


Vertical naga-oban: 51.5 x 22.9 cm., 20¼ x 9 in.

For a different print of the same series in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession 21.6878, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/234541