Pleasure quarters

Tosa Mitsusada (1738-1806)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
18th-19th century
Height:
101.6 cm  (40 in.)
Width:
30.9 cm  (12 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
ink and color on silk
Place of creation:
Nihon [Japan] (日本国)

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    Japanese art[Museum inv. no.: 14.76.48]

Description

A man plays a shamisen.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shamisen [3451]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

The Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the name Suge Mitsusada as the creator. The artist was a part of the Tosa school and most artists from the school took the Tosa name. Suga is probably the artist's birth name.

RIdIM record id

5198