Courtesan for the Third Month, Kaigetsudō Dohan, ca. 1714

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Courtesan for the Third Month, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1714, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink and color on paper, 22 1/4 x 12 in. ( x cm), Prints, Kaigetsudō Dohan (active 1710–16), Several artists with the surname Kaigetsudō were pupils of Kaigetsudō Ando, a painter who worked in the early 18th century. Except for the fact that Ando was linked to a scandal involving an actor and a woman of the shogun's household and was exiled from Edo in March 1714, little is known about him or his followers

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