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Print artist: Kitao Shigemasa (北尾重政)

Print artist: Katsukawa Shunsho (勝川春章)
Published by: Tsutaya Juzaburo (蔦屋重三郎)
Title
Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami 青楼美人合姿鏡 (A Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Green Houses Compared)
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English: Illustrated book. Vol. 2 of three volumes. Showing the occupations of courtesans, vol. 1 spring and summer, vol. 2 autumn and winter, in vol. 3 verses on four seasons written by courtesans. Colour woodblock-printed.



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Date 1776
date QS:P571,+1776-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 28 centimetres
Width: 18.50 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1979,0305,0.124.2
Notes

Hillier and Smith 1980

Acknowledged as one of the outstanding illustrated books of the world. The 'Green Houses' were the great establishments of courtesans in Edo. Although some have seen Shigemasa's hand in the spring and autumn pictures and Shunsho's in the remainder, the two artists, as was often the case in collaborative works of this nature, contrived to give a surprising uniformity to the style throughout, and there is far from universal agreement on the division mentioned.

Literature: Brown, Louise Norton, 'Block Printing and Book Illustration in Japan', London and New York, 1924, pp. 148 and 161. Toda, Kenji, 'Descriptive Catalogue of the Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago', Chicago, 1931, pp. 180-1.

Sorimachi, Shigeo, 'Catalogue of Japanese Illustrated Books in the Spenser Collection of the New York Public Library', New York, 1968, no. 439.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1979-0305-0-124-2
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