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hanging scroll, painting   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
hanging scroll, painting
Description
English: Painting, hanging scroll. Courtesan with attendant standing on verandah, wearing purple kimono with design of flowering plants beside stream, over a red kimono with pattern of plovers and waves. Ink and colour and gold on paper. Signed and sealed.
Date between 1741 and 1748
date QS:P571,+1741-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1741-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1748-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 96 centimetres
Width: 26.50 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1901,0516,0.27
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Clark 1992 A courtesan, accompanied by her 'kamuro', stands on a verandah, pulling up her skirts slightly at the front, perhaps preparing to put on the clogs now lying on the ground. She wears a purple 'uchikake' with a design of flowering 'kohone' plants beside a stream, over a red kimono with a pattern of plovers and waves. The large face, tilted forward and outlined in red (as always in Moromasa's paintings), has the characteristic long nose, downturned mouth and hair combed directly back from the forehead that are the hallmarks of his idiosyncratic style. The composition of a courtesan and attendant(s) standing or seated on the corner of the verandah of a house of pleasure is common in Moromasa's small 'oeuvre'; compare, for instance, Ota 1985, no. 14, and Ithaca 1966, no. 16. Literature:

'(Hizo) Ukiyo-e taikan' ('Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections'), ed. Narazaki Muneshige. Vol. 1, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1987, BW no. 7.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1901-0516-0-27
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