SPECIAL ADVISORY: The Yale University Art Gallery is free and open to the public from Tuesday through Sunday. Masks and COVID-19 vaccination (including booster, if eligible) are required.Review our Visitor Policies
Asian Art
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Explore image in Artist: Chōkōsai Eishō, Japanese, active 1793–99
Kasugano of Sasa-ya (House of Bamboo grass) : Beauties of the gay quarters
ca. 1798
Polychrome woodblock print
sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 1/8 in. (38.7 × 25.7 cm)
Frances Gaylord Smith Collection
1972.32.13
Geography:
Japan
Status:
Culture:
Japanese
Period:
Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification:
Works on Paper - Prints
Provenance:
Frances Gaylord Smith (Mrs. George T. Smith) Collection; by descent to nephew Gaylord Donnelley (1910–1992) and Dorothy Ranney Donnelley (1910–2002); loaned in 1969, and given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1972
Bibliography:
Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 308, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
