Ogino Sawanojo as the Shiokumi Matsukaze
Artistattributed to
Torii Kiyonobu I 鳥居 清信
(Japanese, 1664–1729)
Dateabout 1700
MediumSumizuri-e; ink on paper; a modern impression from an old block from which the artist's signature and publisher's mark have been removed.
Dimensions27.9 x 12.7 cm (11 x 5 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.59.2256
DescriptionHosoban.Label TextA design in the early Torii style. Ogino Sawanojo as the shiokumi woman (carrier of seawater to kettles for making salt) Matsukaze, shown seated on the bent-over trunk of the pine tree on Suma Beach, upon which her faithless lover, the noble lord Ariwara no Yukihira, hung his haori (coat) and eboshi (hat) as pledges that he would come back to her (which he never did). He had been recalled to the court at Kyoto from which he had been temporarily banished. Link (Link, Primitive Ukiyo-e, p.279) suggests that the actor may be Hayakawa Hasse. [further research needed]
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Torii Kiyonobu I 鳥居 清信
late 17th–early 18th century
