Item from the Mokuhankan Flea Market

Pleasure Quarter at Fukagawa

Size: 29.0cm by 21.0cm (11.42 in by 8.27 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Shiba Kokan

Era: Taisho | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 8,000$ 64.00£ 47.00€ 54.50 [Item has been sold]

Description: Part of a monthly subscription series of three woodblock prints issued by the Yamato Hanga Kanko-kai in ca. 1924.

A customer peeps through a hole in a shoji screen at two courtesans who pause before entering the room to entertain their guests. The print is a chuban, an ukiyoe-e print that is about half the size of an oban print.

There is an original of this design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

They offer the poem transcribed as: Yū kaze ni hikute ni nabiko ominaishi hatsu aki goro no sugata naruran (The ominaishi flowers softly swayed by the evening breeze have the appearance of early autumn), likening the women to flowers.

There are traces of glue removal on the back of this print.

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