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painting, hanging scroll
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| Title |
painting, hanging scroll |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Painting, hanging scroll. Courtesan walking, wearing kimono decorated with swimming carp. Ink, colour and gold on silk. Signed and sealed. |
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| Date | 1818-1830 (c.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | silk | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Asia |
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| Accession number |
1913,0501,0.288 |
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| Notes | A courtesan wearing a magnificent surcoat processes forward, while turning to look over her shoulder, posing so as to show off to best advantage the designs and patterns on the back of her robes and their skirts. Most striking is the design on the surcoat of teeming carp gliding in the water; the subject of carp and pondweed was used frequently in hangingscroll paintings by Hokusai and his pupils. Great play is given to the design of swirls and scattered maple leaves on the skirts, equally to the geometric pattern of interlocking crosses on the sash. This reminds us that ukiyo-e paintings of beautiful women were first and foremost preoccupied with the depiction of gorgeous patterns on their robes. This painting is by Gakutei, a pupil of Totoya Hokkei (1780–1850) of the school of Hokusai, who was active from the late Bunka era (1804–18) until at least 1869. The style of the woman’s face also shows the clear influence of the Utagawa-school artists active in the early nineteenth century. Gakutei was at one time also a pupil of Tsutsumi Shu-ei (d. 1814), who claimed artistic descent from the great medieval ink painter Sesshu- (1420–1506); his classical-style ink-painting technique was therefore highly syncretic. [NMa] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1913-0501-0-288 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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