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hanging scroll, painting
Description
English: Painting, hanging scroll. Courtesan wearing kimonos in two layers, with one sleeve of over-kimono shrugged off and hanging down to display pattern of robe underneath; pale blue and white over-kimono, decorated with large blue chrysanthemums; with scarlet under-kimono with design of dwarf bamboo in snow. Ink and colour on paper. Signed and sealed.



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Date between 1704 and 1716
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1704-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1716-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 75 centimetres
Width: 30 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1913,0501,0.283
Notes

Clark 1992

As so often in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century paintings, the courtesan wears kimonos in two layers, with one sleeve of the over-kimono shrugged off and hanging down to display the pattern of the robe underneath. Here the pale blue and white over-kimono, decorated with large blue chrysanthemums (suggesting autumn) contrasts strikingly with the scarlet under-kimono with a design of dwarf bamboo in the snow (representing winter). The whole composition is enlivened by Chikanobu's habitual use of dancing outlines -particularly on the flouncing 'obi' - which accord well with the brilliant colouring in high-quality pigments. The face has the same sweetly smiling expression as is found in all works by this master.

Literature: 'Kokka', 42, 1893, colour woodblock facsimile facing p. 114. Morrison, Arthur. 'The Painters of Japan'. Vol. 2, London, 1911, p. 31. '(Hizo) Ukiyo-e taikan' ('Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections'), ed. Narazaki Muneshige. Vol. 1, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1987, no. 103.

Smith, Lawrence, 'Japanese Art: Masterpieces in the British Museum', with Victor Harris and Timothy Clark. London, British Museum Publications, 1990, no. 192.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1913-0501-0-283
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