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Maker(s):Utagawa Kuniyasu; Kawaguchiya Uhei, publisher
Culture:Japanese (1794–1832); Japanese (active ca. 1800s–1852)
Title:Oiran and Kamuro of Kakuebiya ('Kakuebiya')
Date Made:1820s
Type:Print
Materials:woodblock print
Measurements:overall: 15 in x 10 1/8 in; 38.1 cm x 25.7 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2005.302
Credit Line:Gift of William Green
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
ōban; nishiki-e; bijinga

Label Text:
This print is signed at lower-left "Kuniyasu hitsu" ('painted by Kuniyasu') and bears the circular kiwame seal of the censor and the mark of publisher Kawaguchiya Uhei of the firm Fukusendō. The courtesan and her attendants are identified by the text, as yet not fully deciphered, in the larger cartouche at upper-left, with their place of employ, the Kakuebiya, written in the smaller cartouche to the right.

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