Fujin Tomari-kyaku no Zu
Fujin Tomari-kyaku no Zu Sanmai-tsuzuki (婦人泊り客之図三枚続, "Triptych Picture of Women Overnight Guests", c. 1794–1795) is a
Background
Ukiyo-e art flourished in Japan during the Edo period from the 17th to 19th centuries, and took as its primary subjects courtesans, kabuki actors, and others associated with the "floating world" lifestyle of the pleasure districts. Alongside paintings, mass-produced woodblock prints were a major form of the genre.[1] In the mid-18th century full-colour nishiki-e prints became common, printed using a large number of woodblocks, one for each colour.[2] A prominent genre was bijin-ga ("pictures of beauties"), which depicted most often courtesans and geisha at leisure, and promoted the entertainments of the pleasure districts.[3]
Publication
The multicolour nishiki-e prints[6] in the horizontal triptych are each ōban-sized, measuring about 37 by 25 centimetres (15 in × 10 in).[a] They were published by Tsuruya Kiemon in c. 1794–95.[8] On each print appears the title in a corner[8] and the signature Utamaro hitsu (歌麿筆, "brush of Utamaro").[6]
Description and analysis
The scene depicts women in and outside a
From inside, a woman to the right holding an uchiwa
Notes
References
- ^ Fitzhugh 1979, p. 27.
- ^ Kobayashi 1997, pp. 80–83.
- ^ Harris 2011, p. 60.
- ^ Kobayashi 1997, pp. 87–88.
- ^ Kobayashi 1997, p. 88.
- ^ a b Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, staff.
- ^ Faulkner & Robinson 1999, p. 40.
- ^ a b c d Tanabe 2016, p. 72.
Works cited
- Faulkner, Rupert; ISBN 978-4-7700-2387-2.
- Fitzhugh, Elisabeth West (1979). "A Pigment Census of Ukiyo-e Paintings in the Freer Gallery of Art". Ars Orientalis. 11. Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan: 27–38. JSTOR 4629295.
- Harris, Frederick (2011). Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print. ISBN 978-4-8053-1098-4.
- Kobayashi, Tadashi (1997). Ukiyo-e: An Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints. ISBN 978-4-7700-2182-3.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, staff. "Women Overnight Guests, a Triptyich (Fujin tomari-kyaku no zu, sanmai-tsuzuki)". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Tanabe, Shōko (2016). "Hari-shigoto" 武蔵野. In Asano, Shūgō (ed.). Utamaro Ketteiban 婦人泊り客之図. Bessatsu Taiyō (in Japanese). Vol. 245. Heibonsha. pp. 72–73. ISBN 9784582922455.