1985.669.A.9: Afterword by Akerakan Shujin (Akera Kankō) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.669.A.9
- People
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Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Japanese (Edo 1761 - 1816)
- Title
- Afterword by Akerakan Shujin (Akera Kankō) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- accordion-fold book
- Date
- Mid Edo period, dated 1784
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tōkyō
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/54310
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Nineth two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 38.2 cm (15 1/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- 1985.669.A.9
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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