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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Chinese classical education consisted of the Six Arts: performing rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. The Chinese qin, a stringed musical instrument in the zither family, customarily symbolizes the art of music. In this print a similar Japanese instrument, the koto, replaces the qin. The fashionable Japanese entertainer playing it stands in for an accomplished Chinese scholar.
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Chōbunsai Eishi — 鳥文斎栄之画 「青楼美人六花仙 丁子屋雛鶴鸖」|The Courtesan Hin
Chōbunsai Eishi
Chōbunsai Eishi
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867) — Woman Performing the 
Chōbunsai Eishi — 鳥文斎栄之画 「風流略六哥仙 其の二」小野小町|Ono no Komachi: Nu
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850) — A Picture by Hishikawa
Yashima Gakutei
Gakutei Harunobu (Japanese, 1786(?)–1868) — Courtesan Readin
Utagawa Toyohiro (Japanese, 1733–1828) — Courtesan Seated at
Yashima Gakutei — 三味線の調弦|Woman Tuning a Shamisen and a Cat L
Yanagawa Shigenobu
Yashima Gakutei
