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Courtesans and Geisha Entertaining a Client in a House Overlooking Takanawa Bay, from the series Twelve Months to the South of Edo
Image Not Available for Courtesans and Geisha Entertaining a Client in a House Overlooking Takanawa Bay, from the series Twelve Months to the South of Edo

Courtesans and Geisha Entertaining a Client in a House Overlooking Takanawa Bay, from the series Twelve Months to the South of Edo

Artist/Maker (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Date1784
MediumColor woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ōban diptych; overall: 29 3/16 × 19 7/16 in. (74.1 × 49.4 cm)
Sheet (left): 14 9/16 × 10 in. (37 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet (right): 14 5/8 × 9 7/16 in. (37.1 × 24 cm)
Credit LineMary A. Ainsworth Bequest
PortfolioTwelve Months to the South of Edo (Minami juniko)
Object number1950.374
Status
Not on view
Exhibition History
A College Collects: Japanese Prints from Oberlin College
  • Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (September 25, 1960 - October 15, 1960 )
  • Hollins College, Hollins, VA (November 5, 1960 - November 25, 1960 )
  • Public Library of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC (December 9, 1960 - December 29, 1960 )
  • Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN (January 12, 1961 - February 2, 1961 )
  • Port Arthur Service League, Port Arthur, TX (March 20, 1961 - April 10, 1961 )
  • University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (April 23, 1961 - May 15, 1961 )
  • Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (October 6, 1961 - October 26, 1961 )
  • Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (November 8, 1961 - November 29, 1961 )
  • State University of New York, Oswego, NY (January 14, 1962 - February 4, 1962 )
  • Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (March 23, 1962 - April 13, 1962 )
  • Wichita Art Museum, Wichitia, KS (September 6, 1962 - September 26, 1962 )
  • Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, AL (October 16, 1962 - November 6, 1962 )
  • University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (November 20, 1962 - December 11, 1962 )
The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 9, 1988 - October 16, 1988 )
Private Pleasures: Japanese Porcelain of the Edo Period
  • Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada (June 3, 2010 - September 12, 2010 )
Interrogating Beauties
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 9, 2021 - August 13, 2021 )
Collections
  • Asian