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FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION

Attributed to Isoda Koryusai (1735–1790)
On the Street in the Yoshiwara
On the Street in the Yoshiwara, No. 6 from the series Poems of the Male and Female Mane'emon (Haikai meoto Mane'emon)

Woodblock print, unsigned, early 1770s
Horizontal chuban (18.7 x 25.6cm.)
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This print is from a series of twenty-four chuban-sized designs by Koryusai, each featuring the character Mane'emon, a miniature person who in this particular design is wearing a black head covering, while observing the small female figure in the cage.

For another impression of the same design in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, go to:
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/on-the-street-in-the-yoshiwara-no-6-from-the-series-poems-of-the-male-and-female-maneemon-haikai-meoto-maneemon-202004

For another design from the same series in the collection of Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, go to:
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/206329

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