Love at the Brothel Gate
late 1760s
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- 29 × 21.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-200352
Courtesans were on display to potential clients through bars, an aspect of their jobs that also afforded an opportunity to have socially distanced interactions with fellow entertainment district denizens. Here, a courtesan with a crane motif on her obi sash converses with her lover, a young man carrying a miniature theater. The poem in the cloud above them comes from New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (新古今和歌集) and reads, Although I yearn, I do not speak as days and months, pass by behind my cedar gate. How can I endure keeping this secret within?
Provenance
Wade, 1921.349
Registry history
- late 1760s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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