Print: Mage O Naosu Yujo, 1860

Title: Mage O Naosu Yujo, 1860 Description: Japanese print shows a courtesan (an oiran with a paper kerchief in her mouth) fixing her hair as she walks toward the left; probably part of a triptych. Creator: Taiso, Yoshitoshi, 1839-1892, artist Subjects: Courtesans--Japan--1860, Hairdressing--Japan--1860 Collection: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915. This collection includes Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, by such artists as Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. Subjects include actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, and Western foreigners. Many schools and traditions are represented, but primary strengths include the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e, translated as "pictures of the floating (or sorrowful) world"; and Yokohama-e, literally "pictures of Yokohama."