Beauties of the Three Capitals: Kayo of Kyoto, Ikkaku of Osaka, and Kokichi of Tokyo

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Beauties of the Three Capitals: Kayo of Kyoto, Ikkaku of Osaka, and Kokichi of Tokyo

Alternate Title: Nishigyō maiko Kayo, Ōsaka maiko Ikkaku, Tōkyō geigi Kokichi

Japan, circa 1877
Prints; woodblocks
Color woodblock print
Image: 13 3/4 × 9 7/16 in. (34.93 × 23.97 cm) Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 15/16 in. (36.2 × 25.24 cm)
Gift of Carl Holmes (M.71.100.47)
Japanese Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Burrell, Jane; Kuwayama, George; Lee, Junghee; Garaventa, Gloria and Henry Smith.  Tuchman, Mitch, ed.  Tradition In Transition:  Print Masters of the Meiji and Taisho Periods.  Los Angeles, CA:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983.
  • Burrell, Jane; Kuwayama, George; Lee, Junghee; Garaventa, Gloria and Henry Smith.  Tuchman, Mitch, ed.  Tradition In Transition:  Print Masters of the Meiji and Taisho Periods.  Los Angeles, CA:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983.
  • Epprecht, Katharina. 2012. The Beauty of the Moment: Women in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Zurich: Scheidegger and Spiess.
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