Colour woodblock print, oban. A courtesan standing beside a screen with a lantern and a kettle behind her, from a set illustrating the ‘the fashionable five confucian virtues’, (‘furyu jin-gi-rei-chi-shin’), this design illustrating ‘wisdom’, (‘chi’). Date: between 1794 and 1796. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Chi (BM 1909,0618,0.86)
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