In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Shigemasa favored using colors in broad opaque masses, as seen here in the beauties’ robes. He was a painter, printmaker, and poet, specializing in courtesan and actor prints. The format of this hanging scroll or "pillar painting" allows for the work to be hung on a pillar in a Japanese home.
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Sakai Hōitsu 酒井抱一 — 雪中縁先美人図|Beauty on a Veranda in Snow
Torii Kiyomitsu (Japanese, 1735–1785) — A Beautiful Woman
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815) — Courtesan Holding a D
Isoda Koryūsai
Torii Kiyonaga
Kikugawa Eizan
Suzuki Haruji
Kano Chikanobu
Isoda Koryūsai
Shibata Zeshin
Utagawa Toyoharu — Beautiful Lady with Lantern
Torii Kiyonaga
