A Courtesan Offering a Smoke to a Guest
Artist
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信
(Japanese, about 1725–1770)
Date1765–1770
Mediummulticolored woodblock print
Dimensions20.6 x 13.8 cm (8 1/8 x 5 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.385
DescriptionA courtesan seated on the floor beside yer bed offers a smoke to a guest not shown on this half of the picture. Hiding under an ornamental stand is the rear of the room is the small, supposedly invisible spectator, Manyemon. "Furyu Enshoku Manyemon", a novelette describedin and picturing what Manyemon saw when he visited the YoshiwaraOn View
Not on view
