The Entrance to Ageya-machi, from the series Scenes in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no tei)

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The Entrance to Ageya-machi, from the series Scenes in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no tei)

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A samurai with a servant has just passed the Omon, or great gate, the only entrance to the Yoshiwara quarter. Two men joke with two women on the main street, Nakamachi.
Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694)
Edo period (1615–1868)

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1681 - 1683
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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