Scenes from the Pleasure Quarters, first half 18th century
Ōoka Michinobuexpand_more
Ink, color, and gold on paperexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.108
Not on Viewexpand_more
This handscroll shows a number of scenes from the Yoshiwara, the designated red-light district in the capital Edo (now Tokyo). As the scroll is unrolled from right to left, the viewer gains an increasingly internal perspective on the rarefied world of the Yoshiwara’s brothels, from the initial boat ride toward to the district, to views of lower-class brothels, and finally to the interior spaces of an elite brothel in the final scene. Ōoka Michinobu was a disciple of the ukiyo-e painter Ōoka Shunboku (1680–1763) active primarily in the city of Ōsaka.
Details
- Title
- Scenes from the Pleasure Quarters
- Artist Life
- act. c. 1720-1740
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.108
- Provenance
- Baron Kuki, Director of the Tokyo National Museum in Meiji times and his son Kuki Saburo. Richard Lane until June, 1967 Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 242
- Curator Approved
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