Skip to main content

The Main Gate, New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Ômon-guchi)

(Japanese, active about 1720–1750)
about 1745 (Enkyô 2)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
DimensionsHorizontal; 46.2 x 67.2 cm (18 3/16 x 26 7/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession number21.5677
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.
Actor Ôtani Hiroji I as Asahina
Torii Kiyotada I
1733 (Kyôhô 18), 1st month (?)
Actor Ichikawa Masugorô as a Child with a Hobbyhorse
Torii Kiyotada I
about 1728 (Kyôhô 13)
Conservation Status: After Treatment
Torii Kiyotada I
about 1719 (Kyôho 4)
Actor Arashi Kiyosaburô II
Torii Kiyotada I
about 1720--23 (Kyôhô 5--8)
Actor Arashi Kiyosaburô II as a Courtesan with a Boy Attendant
Torii Kiyotada I
about 1720--23 (Kyôhô 5--8)
Actor Ogino Izaburô I as Watanabe no Tsuna
Torii Kiyotada I
1723 (Kyôho 8), 11th month
Actors Sanogawa Mangiku as Imagawa and Fujimura Handayû II
Torii Kiyotada I
1719 (Kyôhô 4), 9th month
Woman Holding a Jôruri Libretto (Katô bushi)
Torii Kiyotada I
about 1718 (Kyôhô 3)