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Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)

The courtesan Tsukasa and her two kamuro Agena and Kocho of the Ogiya (Ogiyanaitsukasa agena kocho: Daimonguchi no rakugan), 1830's

Description

Maker

  • Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), 1786-1865, Japanese
  • Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige), 1777-1835, Japanese
  • Kawaguchiya Shōzō, Japanese, publisher

Title

The courtesan Tsukasa and her two kamuro Agena and Kocho of the Ogiya (Ogiyanaitsukasa agena kocho: Daimonguchi no rakugan)

Year

1830's

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • color,
  • ink

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 37.6 x 25.2 cm (14 13/16 x 9 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, top right in pencil: 1957/50

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.1414

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Pleasure of Edo

March 24 - June 18, 2000

In this print, Kunisada has borrowed the 11th-century Chinese landscape theme of the “Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers” as the basis for his series of “Eight Views of the Yoshiwara.” The inset scene depicts geese descending over the Taimon, the great gate of the Yoshiwara pleasure district in Edo (modern Tokyo). The reference is to the Xiao-Xiang scene of “Wild Geese Descending to the Sandbar,” but instead of the mist-filled river landscape of the Chinese original, the geese fly toward the Yoshiwara, in a humorous comment on the lofty character of the original Chinese subject matter and the final destination of the geese in this print.

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Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)

The courtesan Shirokawa and her two kamuro Nagisa and Yumeno of the Tamaya (Tamaya nai shirokawa nagisa yumeno), 1830's

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