Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Tōbōsaku 東方朔, Edo Period

Maker

Title

Tōbōsaku 東方朔

Year

Edo Period

Medium

ink and color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Shikishiban: 20.8 x 18.6 cm (8 3/16 x 7 5/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription Text/Poem: あたらしき 春に粧ひし たをやめを 王母かもゝの 媚といはまし　
紀侭成

Translation: This graceful beauty, dressed for the newly arrived season of spring, has the teasing allure of Seiōbo's peaches.
- Ki no Mamanari

(Translated by Alfred Haft in Carpenter, Reading Surimono (2005), p. 175)

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

56.039.29

Tōbōsaku 東方朔
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: あたらしき 春に粧ひし たをやめを 王母かもゝの 媚といはまし　
紀侭成

Translation: This graceful beauty, dressed for the newly arrived season of spring, has the teasing allure of Seiōbo's peaches.
- Ki no Mamanari

(Translated by Alfred Haft in Carpenter, Reading Surimono (2005), p. 175)

Signature: 東都岳亭 Gakutei from the Eastern capital

Seals: 定岡 Sadaoka

Origin: Japan

Exhibition History

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