Hosoda Eishi

Takigawa of the Ōgiya Brothel: The First Reception Room Appointment of the New Year (Hatsu-uri zashiki no zu: Ōgiya Takigawa), from the series A Comparison of Selected Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō bisen awase)

ca. 1794–95

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Image: 14 5/8 × 10 in. (37.1 × 25.4 cm)

Collection no.

JP1524

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Hosoda Eishi. Takigawa of the Ōgiya Brothel: The First Reception Room Appointment of the New Year (Hatsu-uri zashiki no zu: Ōgiya Takigawa), from the series A Comparison of Selected Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō bisen awase). Hosoda Eishi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fletcher Fund, 1929. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.