Image
Description
Maker
Title
Courtesan
Period
Year
Medium
Materials/Techniques
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Techniques
Materials
inkSupports
Geography
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Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo
Dimensions
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Sheet: 57.6 x 28.3 cm (22 11/16 x 11 1/8 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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[notations]
Paper label affixed to verso with signature and seal of John Happer attesting that the print was printed by Watanabe Shozaburo in 1910 from an original block on paper "over 300 years old." JWO 01/23/2006Inscription verso, bottom left on adhered paper in ink: Print made from a/genuine old block engraved/not later than 1705,/on paper of the same period/with ink over 300 years' old./Tokyo. October 1916./Printer: S. Watanabe/Certified as a true/statement J[?]Happer
Three red seals stamped verso, bottom left corner.
Signature: Nihon giga Kaigetsu matsuyo Dohan zu
Seals: Publisher's seal | Igaya hanmoto
Credit / Object Number
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Credit
Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke
Object Number
20.1054 Type
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
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Tombstone
Watanabe Shōzaburō, publisher
After Igaya (Japanese), publisher
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