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Yoshiwara. Shunchô, Katsukawa (Japanese, active c.1781-1801). Colour print from woodblocks (benigirai-e) with blind embossing (karazuri). Aiban format. 1780s. From the series 'Eight Views of Edo' (Edo hakkei). The idea of sets of eight views (hakkei) derived from a traditional set of eight views of Ômi Province, north-east of Kyoto', itself derived from the Chinese series, 'Eight views on the Xiao and Xiang Rivers'. Each view originally had an associated poem, with a mood or time of day. Print designers usually substituted other Japanese settings for the Ômi locations, but always with associated moods (or times of day) carried over from the original set. Sets of eight always included a scene of 'night rain', and in sets of Edo views, the 'night rain' usually featured the Yoshiwara. Two courtesans gaze out at rain through the upstairs window of a Yoshiwara brothel. Distant figures make their way along the Nihon embankment linking the Yoshiwara to Edo, carried in covered palanquins or sheltered by umbrellas.
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