pentaptych print

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Object Type
Museum number: 1909,0406,0.474.1-5
Title: Object: Seiro nikai no zu (Picture of the Upper Floor of a Brothel)
Description: Colour woodblock print, pentaptych. The scene at evening on the upper floor of a brothel in the Yoshiwara, viewed from above.
Producer name
School/style
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1813 (third month)
Production place: Published in: Edo
Materials
Technique: woodblock; colour
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Binyon 1916 / A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts Preserved in the Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (91); Edo BM 1982 / Edo: Art of Japan 17th-19th Century (67); Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan Vol 3 / Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan (BW 1); Rousmaniere 2002 / Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th-19th Centuries (fig. 51)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Yoshiwara
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1909
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1909,0406,0.474.1-5
Conservation

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