Yoshiwara Courtesan, from Selections from the Brocade Quarter (E-awase kingaishō)
Kikukawa Eizan
1815
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 10 1/8 × 14 5/8 in. (25.72 × 37.15 cm) (sheet, horizontal ōban)
- Genre
Tags
Japan
About
A ranking prostitute in gorgeous robes contends with an indecisive customer grasping her lower leg. He dallies while he contemplates his options: An oiran looks good from either the side or the front...perhaps today, let's make it the side. She grows impatient: Don't say such useless, foolish thing; hurry up and come inside. The poem on the lantern at left reads: The wind of the fan Parts the mist The hollyhock s in the valley Beautiful to the eye.
