Young Man Smoking with a Courtesan

Young Man Smoking with a Courtesan

RP-P-2006-268

This is the prefatory illustration to an album containing twelve shunga (erotic) prints, entitled Negai no itoguchi (The Prelude to Desire). Utamaro's speciality was the depiction of women, especially the courtesans of the Yoshiwara, the regulated pleasure district of the capital Edo (present-day Tokyo). Negai no itoguchi is considered one of Utamaro’s greatest shunga series.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Jaarverslag 2006, afb. p. 23

print maker: Kitagawa Utamaro, Japan

1799

kleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken

height 253 mm x width 382 mm

Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds and the Goslings NieuwBeerta Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

purchase 2006

Public domain

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Jaarverslag 2006, afb. p. 23

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