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Number Three: The Sky at New Year with Chitose from the Tsuruya
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Chitose, a high-ranking courtesan from the Tsuruya house, walking with an apprentice courtesan (shinzô) and to the right a maid (kamuro) along the New Year decorations in Nakanochô, the main street of the Yoshiwara, the pleasure quarter of Edo (current Tokyo). With two poems. This is the third sheet of a five-panel print, where high-ranking courtesans (oiran) from the different houses of the Yoshiwara are depicted.
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Credit lineNummer drie: de lucht bij nieuwjaar met Chitose uit het Tsuruya. c. 1827. Yashima Gakutei. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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