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hanging scroll, painting
Description
English: Painting, hanging scroll. Courtesan and attendant sampling incense on verandah: courtesan standing at corner of verandah, leaning against pillar and toying with hairpin; young attendant kneeling beside her offering up incense burner; in garden behind cherry tree in full bloom; lacquer box and tray and folded paper packet on tatami of open room. Ink, colour and gold on silk. Signed and sealed.



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Date between 1741 and 1751
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1741-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1751-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium silk
medium QS:P186,Q37681
Dimensions
Height: 88.90 centimetres
Width: 33 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1913,0501,0.401
Notes

Clark 1992

A courtesan stands at the corner of a verandah, leaning against a pillar and toying with her hairpin, while a young 'shinzo' kneeling beside her offers up an incense burner for her mistress to sample the fragrance. In the garden behind a cherry tree is in full bloom. The accessories for preparing the incense - a lacquer box and tray and a folded paper packet - are arranged on the tatami of the open room.

The 'incense guessing game' ('ko-awase') in which different aromatic woods were burnt and teams competed to identify the fragrance was a pastime dating back to the courtly Heian period (794-1185). Even though it does not appear to be a specific 'mitate' reworking of an historical theme, Tsunemasa's painting certainly plays on such courtly associations in what was to become an increasingly important trend in late eighteenth-century Ukiyo-e - the identification of Yoshiwara courtesans with the court women of Japan's classical past. Sampling incense was a favourite theme of Tsunemasa's paintings (compare, for instance, Sendai 1988, no. 34), and a woman standing on the corner of a verandah a favourite compositional device. The delicate figures, with their small, round faces and slender wrists, must have been an important stylistic precursor for the colour woodblock prints designed by Harunobu from 1765 to 1770.

Literature:

'(Hizo) Ukiyo-e taikan' ('Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections'), ed. Narazaki Muneshige. Vol. 1, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1987, no. 112.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1913-0501-0-401
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