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Title
hanging scroll, painting
Description
English: Painting, hanging scroll. Promenading courtesan in kimono decorated with plovers and waves and surcoat of foaming waterfall, with large bow of belt tied in front. Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed.



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Date between 1804 and 1818
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1804-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1818-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium silk
medium QS:P186,Q37681
Dimensions
Height: 94.70 centimetres
Width: 29.70 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1913,0501,0.398
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Literature:

Dressed in all her finery, a courtesan makes the stately, ceremonial procession in the quarter, from the brothel where she lives to an assignation teahouse to greet a client. The costume - a kimono decorated with plovers and waves and a surcoat of a foaming waterfall - is dominated by the extraordinarily large bow of the 'obi', tied in front, which is even wider than the woman's body itself. This, together with the fashion for wearing the hair long, loosely combed out and gathered at the ends with a ribbon, as well as the complex aureole of hairpins surrounding her head, is reminiscent of the colour prints of Eizan, dating from the decade following the death of Utamaro in 1806.

The technique of the present painting is unusual in as much as the angular 'hooked' outlines of the drapery, the calligraphic flourishes of the patterning and the generally thin, transparent colouring are much more characteristic of cheaper works on paper rather than paintings on silk. Perhaps this was to speed up production to meet burgeoning demand.

Literature:

'(Hizo) Ukiyo-e taikan' ('Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections'), ed. Narazaki Muneshige. Vol. 1, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1987, BW no. 24.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1913-0501-0-398
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