Chikanobu - Eastern Brocades: #43 Courtesan Jigoku (Hell Courtesan)
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Chikanobu (1838-1912)
Series: Eastern Brocades, Day and Night Compared
Scene: #43 Courtesan Jigoku (Azuma nishiki chūya kurabe: Jigoku dayū
Publisher: Kobayashi Tetsujirō
Date: April 1886
Size: 13 1/2 x 9 3/8"
Japanese woodblock print
Hell courtesan exchanged poems with the zen monk Ikkyu (1394-1481)
Inset: Ikkyu vomiting fish
Fine color and impression, no backing, trimming, movement of red into white areas