Catalog record · 目録番号 76438
Discovering the Address of a Husband's Sweetheart (Guide to Famous Courtesans)
Catalog note / 解説
In a guidebook to the Yoshiwara brothel district known as Yoshiwara saiken, a housewife, her anger seething, spots the name of a courtesan with whom her husband is intimate. Next to her and watching her expression ever so closely, another woman snickers.The contrast of her complacent expression with that of the housewife is quite amusing. Saiken wo/mite koitsu da to/nyobo ii, Looking through the guidebook/It’s her!/cries the housewife. (Tadashi Kobayashi, Edo Beauties in Ukiyo-e, 1994)
Image record / 画像情報
Honolulu · 1790 · honolulu
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