Number three: the New Year sky with Chitose from Tsuruya San - Hatsusora no Tsuruya uchi Chitose (title on object) The Nakanochô for the Hisakataya poetry association (series title) Hisakataya Nakanochô (series title on object ), Chitose, a senior courtesan from the Tsuruya house, walks with a courtesan in training (shinzô) and to the right a maid (kamuro) along New Year's decorations in Nakanochô, the main street of Yoshiwara, the pleasure quarter of Edo (present-day Tokyo). With two poems. This is the third page (vrnl) of a five-part, on which high-standing courtesans (oiran) from the various houses from the Yoshiwara are depicted, courtesan, hetaera, Yashima Gakutei (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1827, paper, colour woodcut, h 205 mm × w 182 mm
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