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Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami 吉原傾城新美人合自筆鏡   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami 吉原傾城新美人合自筆鏡
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English: Woodblock diptych print. Two courtesans (tayu) of the Ogiya, Takikawa and Hanaogi, out promenading at time of Setsubun ceremony with their apprentices (shinzo) and young attendants (kamuro), poems. Opening from the book 'Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami'.
Depicted people Associated with: Takikawa (滝川)
Date 1761-1816 (artist)
Medium paper
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1915,0601,0.8
Notes The courtesans process in a street of the Yoshiwara quarter festooned with New Year decorations, wearing their sumptuous new kimono with large brocade sashes tied at the front. (Label copy, TTC, 1999.)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1915-0601-0-8
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