Courtesan and Helper

Data

Courtesan and Helper
Print   (Part of the set: Taisho era subscription prints)

Ishikawa Toyonobu

1910s

00024-026
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

Here we see a courtesan who has just stepped out of a bath. She fans herself while her kamuro (child helper) offers her what may be some tea. Her fan is decorated with a scene of a willow and the mon (crest) of the Ichimatsu family of kabuki actors. The original print was a benizuri-e, but this reproduction has had other colours added to it by the publisher.

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