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[edit]painting, screen
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painting, screen |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Painting, six-panel screen. Courtesans of the Tamaya house in latticed display room, amusing themselves dressing a doll, folding a paper crane, smoking, dozing off and playing shamisen music; high-ranking courtesans, possibly including Komurasaki, grouped on red carpet in centre of room; apprentices paired in matching kimonos with long, hanging sleeves. Ink, colour and gold on paper. |
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| Depicted people | Portrait of: Komurasaki (小紫 / 濃紫) (?) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1781-1785 (c.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Asia |
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1982,0701,0.2 |
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| Notes | This rare six-panel folding screen can be firmly attributed to the artist Utagawa Toyoharu (1735–1814) and is one of the most important surviving ukiyo-e paintings of the period. It can be dated to the early 1780s on the basis of its style, and the women and fashions portrayed. A group of courtesans is seated on the red carpet in the centre of the room, surrounded by their teenage apprentices (shinzo-) arranged in pairs wearing matching robes with long, hanging sleeves (furisode). They are in the latticed display room, the harimise, of a brothel in Yoshiwara pleasure quarter, where they would sit on display to prospective clients. The view is practically that of a customer standing on a side street of the quarter where the brothels were situated, looking in through the latticed front of the building. Only the very highest-ranking courtesans would be spared this daily (and nightly) duty and invited out directly by a patron to party in one of the teahouses that lined the main central street, Naka-no-cho- (Clark et al 2013, cat. 128). Here it appears to be the quiet middle period of the day, and the courtesans are amusing themselves smoking, playing the shamisen and dressing a doll. One of the teenage apprentices has apparently dozed off. Among the lacquered accessories depicted at the front, to the right of the smoking set, is a small box decorated with the emblem of a crane with its wings outstretched. According to Keisei kei (Guide to Courtesans) of 1788, a printed guide to courtesans written by Santo- Kyo-den (1761–1816), this was a crest used by Komurasaki, a highranked courtesan in the Tamaya brothel owned by Tamaya Sansaburo- . The name of the house appears, playfully half-hidden, on the entrance curtain towards the centre back. Kado-Tamaya (‘Tamaya on the corner’) was the first brothel on the left as you turned into Edo-cho- Itcho-me from Naka-no-cho- . [TC] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1982-0701-0-2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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