File:Hanging scroll, painting (BM 1901,0516,0.28).jpg
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Summary
hanging scroll, painting
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| Title |
hanging scroll, painting |
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| Description |
English: Painting, hanging scroll. Courtesan seated reading letter beside mosquito net. Ink and colour on paper. Inscribed, signed and sealed.
[Jap.Ptg.1398, image (T)] - |
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| Depicted people | Illustration to: Shokushi-hime (式子内親王) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1723-1729 (c.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Asia |
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| Accession number |
1901,0516,0.28 |
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| Notes |
Clark 1992 On an evening in early autumn, with the weather still warm enough to warrant a mosquito net, a courtesan sits with the gauze of the net trailing over her shoulders, reading a letter from her lover, unable to sleep as she waits for him to arrive. Her kimono, with a design of trailing purple clematis, is outlined with ample, fluid strokes that echo the curves of the mosquito net; yet above all it is her bewitching, almost impish, face which draws the viewer's attention. The poem inscribed on the painting, probably by Joryu herself, derives from a verse by Princess Shokushi (no. 1204 in the Imperial 'Shin kokin waka shu' anthology of AD 1201, with a modified last line) and articulates the woman's longing: Thinking to wait for my love I do not even enter the bedchamber, But stay at this door of precious wood. Moon of the autumn night that shines here Do not set so fast! In Ukiyo-e prints and paintings parallels are often drawn in this way with episodes of courtly love from Japan's classical past, suggesting an audience well educated in literature and poetry. Literature: '(Hizo) Ukiyo-e taikan' ('Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections'), ed. Narazaki Muneshige. Vol. 1, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1987, no. 104. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1901-0516-0-28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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