Scene in the Yoshiwara, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1680, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 11 1/4 x 17 31/32 in. (28.6 x 45.7 cm), Prints, Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694), Courtesans are seen from the street through a wooden barred window at a teahouse called Takashimaya, identified by the three characters on a short curtain (noren) at the entrance. Next to the teahouse, a woman in a curtained doorway might be making arrangements with a man outside
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Scene, Yoshiwara, Edo period, 1615–1868, ca, 1680, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print, ink, color, paper, 11 1/4 x 17 31/32, 28.6 45.7 cm, Prints, Hishikawa Moronobu, Japanese, died, 1694, Courtesans, street, wooden barred window, teahouse, Takashimaya, identified, three characters, short curtain, noren, entrance, Next, woman, curtained doorway, might, arrangements, man outside
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