Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami (A Competition among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara, Mirrored in their Writing)
Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden), Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami (A Competition among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara, Mirrored in their Writing), 1784, color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e; accordion-fold album; diptych, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 66.84
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- Title
Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami (A Competition among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara, Mirrored in their Writing)
- Related Titles
original language: 吉原傾城新美人合自筆鏡
translated: A Competition among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara, Mirrored in their Writing
transliterated: Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami
- Artist
- Related People
printer: Tsutaya Jusaburo (Japanese)
publisher: Tsutaya Jūzaburō (Japanese, active 1774-4th month 1852)
- Date
1784
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e; accordion-fold album; diptych
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
each sheet: 14 9/16 in x 9 15/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
seal: Soseki (some sheets and colophon); Masanobu no in (colophon)
signature: Kitao rissai Masanobu (some sheets and colophon)
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Books, Portfolios, and Manuscripts
Japanese Traditional Prints
- Object Type
album
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
- Accession Number
66.84
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Exhibitions
1993 The Floating World Revisited Portland Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art
2005 Crowd Appeal: Impressions of Edo Japan Portland Art Museum
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum
