Courtesans and Geisha Entertaining a Client in a House Overlooking Takanawa Bay, from the series Twelve Months to the South of Edo
Artist/Maker
Torii Kiyonaga 鳥居清長
(Japanese, 1752–1815)
Date1784
MediumColor woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ōban diptych; overall: 29 3/16 × 19 7/16 in. (74.1 × 49.4 cm)
Sheet (left): 14 9/16 × 10 in. (37 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet (right): 14 5/8 × 9 7/16 in. (37.1 × 24 cm)
Sheet (left): 14 9/16 × 10 in. (37 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet (right): 14 5/8 × 9 7/16 in. (37.1 × 24 cm)
Credit LineMary A. Ainsworth Bequest
PortfolioTwelve Months to the South of Edo (Minami juniko)
Object number1950.374
Status
Not on viewA College Collects: Japanese Prints from Oberlin College
- Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (September 25, 1960 - October 15, 1960 )
- Hollins College, Hollins, VA (November 5, 1960 - November 25, 1960 )
- Public Library of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC (December 9, 1960 - December 29, 1960 )
- Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN (January 12, 1961 - February 2, 1961 )
- Port Arthur Service League, Port Arthur, TX (March 20, 1961 - April 10, 1961 )
- University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (April 23, 1961 - May 15, 1961 )
- Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (October 6, 1961 - October 26, 1961 )
- Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (November 8, 1961 - November 29, 1961 )
- State University of New York, Oswego, NY (January 14, 1962 - February 4, 1962 )
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (March 23, 1962 - April 13, 1962 )
- Wichita Art Museum, Wichitia, KS (September 6, 1962 - September 26, 1962 )
- Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, AL (October 16, 1962 - November 6, 1962 )
- University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (November 20, 1962 - December 11, 1962 )
The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 9, 1988 - October 16, 1988 )
Private Pleasures: Japanese Porcelain of the Edo Period
- Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada (June 3, 2010 - September 12, 2010 )
Interrogating Beauties
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 9, 2021 - August 13, 2021 )
Collections
- Asian
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