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Title
hanging scroll, painting
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Painting, hanging scroll. Courtesan walking pet dog on leash beside river; large heaps of rocks bound together with bamboo ropes at bank; above clouds in background silhouette of mountain. Ink and colour on paper. Signed and sealed.



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Date 1777-1781 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 105 centimetres
Width: 36.10 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1913,0501,0.353
Notes

Clark 1992

A courtesan walks her pet dog on a leash beside a river, where large heaps of rocks bound together with bamboo ropes prevent the erosion of the bank. Above clouds in the background is the silhouette of a mountain somewhat reminiscent of Mt Tsukuba, north-east of Edo (though this is by no means certain). The woman wears a purple-striped 'haori' jacket with patches of coloured brocade over a green kimono and yellow 'obi' tied at the front. The 'haori' was originally a man's garment, but was adopted by courtesans and geishas in the late eighteenth century and by women in general in the early nineteenth.

Paintings on paper are often more informal in terms of technique and composition than those on silk, and here Koryusai has tried an unusual, and it has to be said, somewhat awkward, pose, with one shoulder jutting forward and the arm bent behind. Pigments are not as thickly applied as they would be on silk: the cursive form of the signature, too, reflects this slightly 'relaxed' approach. The wash technique of the landscape, with 'pools' of unpainted paper left in reserve to suggest highlights, was the standard one used by artists of the Edo Kano school. If Koryusai was, indeed, once a retainer of the Tsuchiya family, he would have been able to enrol formally in the Kano school, an opportunity generally denied to Ukiyo-e painters who were not of the samurai class.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1913-0501-0-353
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