Title: Yoshiwara Courtesans: A New Mirror Comparing the Calligraphy of Beauties (Yoshiwara keisei: Shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)吉原傾城」新美人合自筆鏡
Object type: Illustrated book
Date: 1784, first month
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist:  Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden) 北尾政演 (山東京伝) 
Artist bio: Japanese, 1761–1816
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Overall: 14 7/8 × 10 3/16 in. (37.8 × 25.8 cm)
Classification: Illustrated Books
Credit line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Women