Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art
Tatsumi (The Pleasure Quarter at Fukagawa, Edo)
Serial: P-U 138
Artist name: Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)
Category: Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints
The Fukagawa Pleasure quarter was known as 'Tatsumi' (south-east) because it was on the S-E side of Edo.
The colour of the sash of the courtesan receiving the letter is orange-pink.
In the first edition of this print it is lemon-yellow.
This print also lacks a small purse for powder for washing that appears in the earlier edition.
From the series "A Contest Between Fashionable Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters" (Tosei yuri bijin awase)
Signature: Kiyonaga ga
Woodblock colour print
Ca. 1784
38 x 25.8 cm