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Page "ne": The Courtesans Echizen Writing on Letter Paper and Kinko Arranging the Hair of a Young Man-album illustration from an unidentified album [possibly (Keisei) Midare Fuji]
Artist
Omori Yoshikiyo
(Japanese, active about 1702–1716)
Date1702–1705
MediumWoodblock print; ink on paper; sumizuri-e
Dimensions25.4 x 36.2 cm (10 x 14 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.59.2262
DescriptionHorizontal obanLabel TextThe illustration is either from a second volume of an album called Shidare Yanagi (The Weeping Willow; published by Kanaya Heiemon, Kyoto) or, more likely, another album entitled Midare fuji (Rambling Wisteria)]. The courtesan Echizen leans on a cushion and, using a suzuri-bako with ink stone and water dropper has chosen a brush to write on a letter paper. The courtesan Kinko arranges the hair of a young man seated before a mirror. The figures are depicted with a large, uchiwa-fan shaped cartouche. The influence of Torii Kiyonobu is sensed in Yoshikiyo's style; Kiyonobu's depiction of courtesans in Keisei ehon of 1700 served as Yoshikiyo's model.
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