An Insistent Invitation
Artist
Ishikawa Toyonobu 石川 豊信
(Japanese, 1711–1785)
Dateabout 1762–1764
MediumWoodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Techniques: blind printing (karazuri)
Dimensionsōban diptych: 35.9 x 49.4 cm (14 1/8 x 19 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.68
Label TextThe Women of the Pleasure Quarter, p. 178: A courtesan is pulling the boy away from playing his samisen to other pleasures. At right a young girl is running towards the young man, her hands uplifted and mouth open as if calling out. The text refers to chigosakura (boy cherry tree) and to the fragrance that remains-transferred to kimono sleeves-after lovers have met. Toyonobu's print The Riding Lesson in the Art Institute of Chicago's Clarence Buckingham Collection (vol. I; p. 227) has the same unusual printed ground-pale pearl gray ground with embossed white woodgrain-which imitates a type of marbled paper (sumi-nagashi).On View
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