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Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Bed of Awakening: Nocturnal Pillow Talks (Nezame no toko ikuyo no mutsugoto), volume 2

Description

Maker

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865, b. in Edo, Japan), artist
Tōkaen Michimaro (Japanese, fl.1808-1841), author

Title

Bed of Awakening: Nocturnal Pillow Talks (Nezame no toko ikuyo no mutsugoto), volume 2
幾夜廼睦言

Year

ca. 1855

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Geography

Place Made: Japan

Dimensions

25 x 17.6 x 0.9 cm (9 13/16 x 6 15/16 x 3/8 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Elizabeth T. and Dorothy N. Casey Fund

Object Number

2020.1.2

Type

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 16: Intimacy

RISD Museum’s Manual 16 Embraces Intimacy

Intimacy reveals something deeply human in us. We need each other on a practical level, which means having to trust strangers. It’s analogous to what I understand prayer requires and what writing poems requires: an openness to the unknown, coupled with trust, a belief that we won’t be hurt. It’s at once akin to and the same as devotion.
-Carl Phillips

The RISD Museum’s sixteenth issue of Manual touches on the bonds of intimacy and its many expressions. This issue complements the exhibition Any distance between us, co-curated by Stephen Truax and Dominic Molon, on view at the RISD Museum through March 13, 2022.

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Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865, b. in Edo, Japan), artist
Tōkaen Michimaro (Japanese, fl.1808-1841), author
Bed of Awakening: Nocturnal Pillow Talks (Nezame no toko ikuyo no mutsugoto), volume 2; 幾夜廼睦言, ca. 1855
Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
25 x 17.6 x 0.9 cm (9 13/16 x 6 15/16 x 3/8 inches)
Elizabeth T. and Dorothy N. Casey Fund 2020.1.2

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