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Courtesans of the Wakanaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1 Wall Art
ART BY: Katsukawa Shunsho
Courtesans of the Wakanaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1 Wall Art
ART BY: Katsukawa Shunsho
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About this artwork
Courtesans of the Wakanaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1 is a color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book by Katsukawa Shunsho (1726–1793), dated 1776. The artist is catalogued as Japanese. The source scan comes from the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 3000 × 2201 px (2.5 MB). It is filed under Prints and Japanese (culture or style), in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 548 works by Katsukawa Shunsho, a Japanese artist.
Shunshō Katsukawa was a Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school. Shunshō studied under Miyagawa Shunsui, son and student of Miyagawa Chōshun, both equally famous and talented ukiyo-e artists.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Katsukawa Shunsho →
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Courtesans of the Wakanaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1 is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
