Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Okyō 王喬, Edo Period

Maker

Title

Okyō 王喬

Year

Edo Period

Medium

ink and color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Shikishiban: 20.8 x 18.4 cm (8 3/16 x 7 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription Text/Poem: おいらんの いきちをはるの 中空に 雁の沓まて きたをむきめり
三津濱成

Translation: Even goose-winged shoes, fine enough to suite the pride of a top courtesan, have begun to migrate northward across the open skies of Spring
- Mitsu no Hamanari

(Translated by Alfred Haft in Carpenter, Reading Surimono (2005), p. 176)

Signature: 東都岳亭 Gakutei from the Eastern capital

Seals: 定岡 Sadaoka

Place

Origin: Japan

Type

Credit

Gift of George Pierce Metcalf

Object Number

56.039.28

Okyō 王喬
from the series Courtesans Viewed as Immortals ( 傾城見立列仙伝 七番の内 Keisei mitate ressenden nanban no uchi)

Inscription Text/Poem: おいらんの いきちをはるの 中空に 雁の沓まて きたをむきめり
三津濱成

Translation: Even goose-winged shoes, fine enough to suite the pride of a top courtesan, have begun to migrate northward across the open skies of Spring
- Mitsu no Hamanari

(Translated by Alfred Haft in Carpenter, Reading Surimono (2005), p. 176)

Signature: 東都岳亭 Gakutei from the Eastern capital

Seals: 定岡 Sadaoka

Origin: Japan

Exhibition History

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