# Hell Courtesan, in Kawanabe Kyōsai's contemporaries

Kawanabe Kyōsai painted this in 1871–89, aged about 40. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Kawanabe Kyōsai repeated this large-scale composition with variations a number of times. In this version, a famous 15th-century courtesan known for wearing a robe with images of the Buddhist hells stands before a folding screen.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1871–89
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, and silver on silk
- Dimensions: Image: 144.2 x 67.6 cm (56 3/4 x 26 5/8 in.); Overall: 233.7 x 92.1 cm (92 x 36 1/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1985.268
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Kawanabe Kyōsai](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/kawanabe-kyosai), Japanese, 1831–1889

1 works in the collection.

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