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Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣 Japanese
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A samurai with a servant has just passed the Omon, or great gate, the only entrance to the Yoshiwara quarter. Two men joke with two women on the main street, Nakamachi.
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よしわらの躰 揚屋町入り口
Title: The Entrance to Ageya-machi, from the series Scenes in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no tei)
Artist:
Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣 (Japanese, 1618–1694)
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: 1681–84
Culture: Japan
Medium: Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 15 1/5 in. (25.7 x 38.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914
Accession Number: JP808
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