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Courtesans were on display to potential clients through bars, an aspect of their jobs that also afforded an opportunity to have socially distanced interactions with fellow entertainment district denizens. Here, a courtesan with a crane motif on her obi sash converses with her lover, a young man carrying a miniature theater. The poem in the cloud above them comes from <em>New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern</em> (新古今和歌集) and reads, <br><br>Although I yearn, <br>I do not speak as days and months, <br>pass by behind my cedar gate. <br>How can I endure keeping this secret within?
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Document identity
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103279
label
Love at the Brothel Gate
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obj
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print
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1
Source metadata
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103279
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print
title
Love at the Brothel Gate
description
Courtesans were on display to potential clients through bars, an aspect of their jobs that also afforded an opportunity to have socially distanced interactions with fellow entertainment district denizens. Here, a courtesan with a crane motif on her obi sash converses with her lover, a young man carrying a miniature theater. The poem in the cloud above them comes from <em>New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern</em> (新古今和歌集) and reads, <br><br>Although I yearn, <br>I do not speak as days and months, <br>pass by behind my cedar gate. <br>How can I endure keeping this secret within?
date
late 1760s
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79506063
creators
23415
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Print
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 29 x 21.7 cm (11 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
accession
1921.349
Source extras
tec
color woodblock print
tombstone
Love at the Brothel Gate (屋門恋), late 1760s. Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724–1770). Color woodblock print; sheet: 29 x 21.7 cm (11 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1921.349
titleInOriginalLanguage
屋門恋
collection
Japanese Art
inscriptions
inscription
Siganture: Harunobu ga
inscription_translation
Although I yearn,/
I do not speak as days and months,/
pass by behind my cedar gate./
How can I endure keeping this secret within?
inscription_remark
The poem in the cloud above the figures comes from New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (新古今和歌集).
creditline
Gift of J. H. Wade
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2026-05-29 05:34:39.013000
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103279
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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color woodblock print
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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