Comparisons of the Beauties of the Green-houses

(Seiro bijin kurabe, 青樓美人競,)

Publishers: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô and Koshimura-ya Heisuke

c. 1837

This series is listed in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London) aa number 120. The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

	Beauty: Uryûno of the Okamotoya (Okamotoya uchi Uryûno, 岡本屋内瓜生野) Publisher’s seal: None I am grateful to for this image.
	Another state of the above design, also without a publisher’s seal
	Beauty: Tsumagoto of the Okamotoya (Okamotoya uchi Tsumagoto, 岡本屋内妻琴) Publisher’s seal: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô (川村 長蔵) I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
	Beauty: Tsumagoto of the Okamotoya (Okamotoya uchi Tsumagoto, 岡本屋内妻琴) Publisher’s seal: The kanji under Kuniyoshi’s signature is probably the publisher, Koshimura-ya Heisuke (越村屋平助), whose seal name is Kohei (越平)
	Beauty: Okamotoya uchi Hônen (岡本屋内 豊年) Publisher’s seal: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô (川村 長蔵) NOTE: Okamotoya uchi Hônen (岡本屋内 豊年) is not normally a female name and its pronunciation could be different, but it can also mean “successful harvest of a bumper crop”. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

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