Woman Leaving a Bath House (from the series Pictures from Otsu)

Description

The image of a horse emerging from a gourd in the upper-right corner alludes to the story of the Daoist immortal Chokaro. It was a popular subject of otsu-e folk paintings.

Provenance

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Woman Leaving a Bath House (from the series Pictures from Otsu)

Utagawa Kunisada

c. mid 1820s

Accession Number

1940.711

Medium

color woodblock print

Dimensions

Sheet: 37.5 x 23.2 cm (14 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of James Parmelee