「青楼美撰合　初売座敷之図　扇屋　滝川」, Takigawa of the Ōgiya House, from the series A Comparison of Selected Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters

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「青楼美撰合　初売座敷之図　扇屋　滝川」, Takigawa of the Ōgiya House, from the series A Comparison of Selected Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō bisen awase), Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1794–95, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 14 5/8 in. ( cm); W. 10 in. ( cm), Prints, Chōbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829), Takigawa self-consciously adjusts her hair and clothing in preparation for receiving a customer. Her clothes are of the type a contemporary writer had in mind when describing high-class courtesans wearing “undergarments of white damask and two robes, the underrobe of scarlet and white kanoko shibori ‘fawn spots’ and the outer one of pale

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