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Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Yosooi of the Matsubaya House
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn

Yosooi of the Matsubaya House

Date1798 - 1800
Label TextThis especially fine impression is notable for its vibrant color, richly-patterned design, and superior printing. It is one of the highlights of the Kollar collection. Yosooi was a high-ranking courtesan associated with the prestigious Matsubaya house and a frequent subject of woodblock prints in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Toyokuni was one of several artists who captured the full measure of her stylish allure in portrait form. The prolific Toyokuni made innumerable prints in the first quarter of the 19th century. Though mostly remembered for his actor prints, his earliest work-exemplified by this striking print-is especially admired.
Object number2014.32.5
Provenance[Sebastian Izzard, New York]; purchased from gallery by Allan Kollar, Seattle, Washington, 2008; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2014
Photo CreditPhoto: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints, Apr. 1 - July 4, 2010. Text by Catherine Roche. Cat. no. 36, reproduced pp. 11, 59. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Renegade Edo: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec, July 21 - Dec. 3, 2023. Text by Xiaojin Wu. No cat. no., p. 101.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Allan Kollar
Dimensions14 7/8 x 11 1/4 in. (37.8 x 28.6 cm)
MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper
Photo: Susan Cole
Segawa of the Matsubaya House
1800
Object number: 2014.32.3
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Kisegawa of the Matsubaya House Holding a Fan
1800
Object number: 2014.32.2
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Sugawara of the Tsuruya House with Two Attendants, from the series Models for Fashion
ca. 1775
Object number: 2013.31.6
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Tagasode of the Tamaya House
1800-02
Object number: 2017.23.13
Image Not Available for Shizuka of the Tamaya House, from the series A Complete Set of the Great Beauties of the Present Day
Shizuka of the Tamaya House, from the series A Complete Set of the Great Beauties of the Present Day
1794
Object number: 2017.23.4
The Courtesans Shizuka and Akashi of the Tamaya House (Tamaya uchi Shizuka, Akashi)
ca. 1799
Object number: 2017.23.10
Photo: William Wickett
South Wind, Clear Dawn (Gaifu kaisei), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.15
Image Not Available for Tago Beach near Eijiri on the Tokaido Highway, Simplified View (Tokaido Eijiri tago-no-ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Tago Beach near Eijiri on the Tokaido Highway, Simplified View (Tokaido Eijiri tago-no-ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-33
Object number: 2010.47.2
Image Not Available for Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.47.3
Image Not Available for The Poem of Sangi Hitoshi (Minamoto no Hitoshi), from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
The Poem of Sangi Hitoshi (Minamoto no Hitoshi), from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.4
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
The Poem of Ariwara no Narihira (Ariwara no Narihira Ason)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.5
Image Not Available for The Poem of Ono no Komachi, from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse
The Poem of Ono no Komachi, from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.6