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Taking advantage of a Chinese man's long braid, a Nezu prostitute tries to pull in some business.

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Document identity
localId
20804
label
Tokyo kaika kyoga meisho
core
obj
dtoType
print
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
20804
contentType
print
stage
normalized
title
Tokyo kaika kyoga meisho
description
Taking advantage of a Chinese man's long braid, a Nezu prostitute tries to pull in some business.
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
1881 (Meiji)
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Prints
woodblock prints
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
18.7
height
24.5
dimensionsRaw
7 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (18.73 x 24.45 cm)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Yoshitoshi giga (drew for fun); [Transcription] Nezu no Nagaya shogi nankinjin o hiku; [Translation] A prostitute of the Nagaya house in Nezu pulls in a Chinese man
med
mulberry paper, pigments
creator_ids
15058
4514
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
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1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
b58252e3475978e9