Catalog ID: 11013
Artist: Hiroshige
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Edition: Original
Date: 1857
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
Reference No.: #101 - One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Size: 14 x 9 -3/4 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Artist: Hiroshige
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Edition: Original
Date: 1857
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
Reference No.: #101 - One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Size: 14 x 9 -3/4 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Hiroshige here presents the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters on the single busiest day of the year. However, from the second story of a brothel, the noise and activity seem far away. A white cat quietly observes the Torinomachi Festival below. In the distance, Mount Fuji towers over the festival celebration.
On this day, the Yoshiwara was open to everyone, including ordinary women. It was also a monbi, one of the special days on which each courtesan was required by tradition to take a customer—or to pay the fee to the brothel owner if she failed. Casually arranged in the foreground are a courtesan's accouterments.