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A Low Class Prostitute (Gun [teppo]), from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter" ("Hokkoku goshiki-zumi")

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Date:

c. 1794/95

Artist:

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿
Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Kitagawa Utamaro

Title

A Low Class Prostitute (Gun [teppo]), from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter" ("Hokkoku goshiki-zumi")

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1789–1800

Medium

Color woodblock print; oban

Dimensions

37.9 × 25.1 cm (14 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Reference Number

1928.1040

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