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Maker(s):Keisai Eisen
Culture:Japanese (1790 - 1848)
Title:May: Irises, The Geisha Oyatami of the Asagiri House, from series The Twelve Months of Beautiful Women of the Floating World
Date Made:ca. 1830's
Type:Print
Materials:woodcut printed in color on paper
Place Made:Japan
Measurements:sheet: 14 x 9 1/2 in.; 35.56 x 24.13 cm
Accession Number:  SC 1968.218
Credit Line:The Margaret Rankin Barker - Isaac Ogden Rankin Collection. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Barker (Margaret Clark Rankin, class of 1908)
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
courtesan seated on bench leans back and looks up, her sleeves are rolled up, fan under bench, text in top half image with round landscape vignette in upper right

Subjects:
Wood-engraving

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