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(Ehon) Toko no ume 艶本床の梅 (Picture Book : Plum of the Bedchamber)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print artist: Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿)

Written by: Shikitei Sanba (式亭三馬) (preface)
Title
(Ehon) Toko no ume 艶本床の梅 (Picture Book : Plum of the Bedchamber)
Description
English: Illustrated erotic book, shunga, folding album, colour woodblock print. 1 volume. Covers: Original, dark blue, painted in gold with horizontal bands of mist and ?pine trees. Title slip: Original, printed (damaged) on buff slip pasted in top centre of cover. Contents: 18 leaves: 1 double-page, preface, 12 double-page illustrations, 5 double pages of text. Inscribed and signed.
Date 1800 (New Year?)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 18.80 centimetres
Width: 12.60 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1972,0724,0.7
Notes

Asano and Clark 1995

A folding album in the ‘chuban’ format, employing a "red avoiding" (beni-girai) colour-scheme; the only example of this within Utamaro's erotic ‘oeuvre’. The preface is by Sukitei, the erotic ‘nom de plume’ of the comic writer Shikitei Samba, who at the end makes reference to Utamaro as the artist, calling him by his erotic alias Mudamara (Waste Prick). Utamaro even makes an appearance as a character in the pornographic story that concludes the volume, where, significantly, the normal characters of his name are glossed with the pronunciation "Utamaru". In addition, the Fukagawa prostitute in the third plate addresses her lumberman client as [Masadaya no] Zen-san, and also mentions another lumberman, Murataya no Sho-san. Hayashi Yoshikazu argues these are both slightly altered versions of the names of real-life acquaintances of Utamaro, who make regular appearances in his erotic works, along with the disguised personae of some of his publishers. Thus there is a lot more specific content to Utamaro's ‘shunga’ than just entertainingly erotic pictures and stories. The dating of the work relies on a remark made by the man in plate 5: "Oh! Oiwa, I fell for you when I saw you at the Musashiya at the time of the display of treasures at Mimeguri Shrine" (Kore Oiwa-bo Mimeguri no kaicho no toki Musashiya de mi-somete oita). This display of treasures (kaicho) at Mimeguri began on the 15th day of the second month, 1799 (see cat. nos. 328, 329), so the present work is thought to have been issued at the following New Year.

Provenance: John Singer Sargent. P. Wilson Steer. John Wheatley. Gerald Kelly.

Literature: ‘Kokusho somokuroku’「 国書総目録」, vol. 6, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 1963-72, pl. 152. Hayashi, Yoshikazu 林美一, ‘Edo makura-eshi shusei: Utamaro sei’「 江戸枕絵師集成　喜多川歌麿　正」,Tokyo, Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1990, 171-174. Hayashi, Yoshizaku 林美一, ‘Edo makura-eshi shusei: Kitagawa Utamaro zoku’「江戸枕絵師集成　喜多川歌麿　続」. Tokyo, Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1993, pls. 13-15.

[Main text translated in Japanese below / 以下上記本文日本語訳]

浅野／クラーク　1995

中判の折帖という形式と紅ぎらいの技法は珍しく、歌麿の艶本ではこの一点だけである。序は好亭によるもので、戯作者式亭三馬の別名である。序文の終わりで画家が歌麿であることを、艶本での別名むだマラと呼んで示している。付文の艶笑譚には「哥麿」の文字まで登場するが、「うたまる」とふりがなが振ってあって、歌麿の名前の読み方に重要な手がかりをあたえてくれる。3番目の図の深川女郎は客の材木屋に「（まさだやの）ぜんさん」と話しかけ、別の材木屋「むらたの正さん」を話題にしている。林美一氏の論説では、彼らは実在の歌麿の知人の名前を少し変えたもので、歌麿の艶本中にはそんな知人たちがよく登場しており、その中には版元の主人も含まれるという。以上のように歌麿の艶本にはエロチックな絵と文の楽しみだけでなく特別な意味もあったのである。出版年は5番目の図の男のことばから知られる。「これはお岩ぼう　みめぐりのかいてうのときむさしやでミそめておいた」とあり、三囲の開帳は寛政11年（1799）の2月15日であるから（第328・329図参照）、本作品は翌年の正月に出版されたとみられる。
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