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Source Description
Geisha Umeya beckons a samurai (customer) into a teahouseThe upper part of the print is the title of the series in large formal characters reserved in a black rectangle; on the left is a decorative panel with the name of the post-station and a short text
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Document identity
localId
23351
label
Geisha Umeya beckons a customer
core
obj
dtoType
print
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
23351
sourceUrl
contentType
print
stage
normalized
title
Geisha Umeya beckons a customer
description
Geisha Umeya beckons a samurai (customer) into a teahouseThe upper part of the print is the title of the series in large formal characters reserved in a black rectangle; on the left is a decorative panel with the name of the post-station and a short text
provenance
C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
date
Ca. 1845-46 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
woodblock prints
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
style
Utagawa School
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Oju Toyokuni ga
med
Mulberry paper, pigments
creator_ids
3275
collection_ids
none
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
a1749ea374a7558b