Title: Courtesan Reading a Letter
Object type: Hanging scroll
Date: mid-18th century
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist:  Ishikawa Toyonobu 
Artist bio: Japanese, 1711–1785
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image: 32 7/8 × 8 9/16 in. (83.5 × 21.7 cm)
Overall with mounting: 67 1/2 × 12 11/16 in. (171.5 × 32.2 cm)
Overall with knobs: 67 1/2 × 14 5/16 in. (171.5 × 36.4 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit line: Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Women, term: Reading