青楼美人合|The Courtesan Kasugano Writing a Letter

ca. 1765

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Woodblock print (Yonkyokuban); ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 5 3/4 in. (21.3 x 14.6 cm)
Collection no.: JP2768
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Suzuki Harunobu. 青楼美人合|The Courtesan Kasugano Writing a Letter. Suzuki Harunobu; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Henry L. Phillips Collection, Bequest of Henry L. Phillips, 1939. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

青楼美人合|The Courtesan Kasugano Writing a Letter — Suzuki Harunobu. ca. 1765.

Medium: Woodblock print (Yonkyokuban); ink and color on paper. Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 5 3/4 in. (21.3 x 14.6 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Henry L. Phillips Collection, Bequest of Henry L. Phillips, 1939.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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