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[edit]Mane'emon no. 5 まねへもん五
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Artist |
Print artist: Suzuki Harunobu (鈴木春信)
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Mane'emon no. 5 まねへもん五 |
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English: Colour woodblock print. Shunga. Young female role actor (onnagata) and his client making love at a tea-house near the kabuki theatre, as Mane'emon holding a kite watches them. |
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Date | 1770 (Meiwa 7) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Asia |
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Accession number |
OA+,0.88 |
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Notes | This is the most important set of shunga prints by Suzuki Harunobu, the first artist fully to exploit the new full-colour printing technology known as ‘brocade pictures’ (nishiki-e), from 1765 until his death in 1770. Unusually for such sets, the whole group forms one continuous story, which can be summarized as follows. A man, a native of Edo who has enjoyed sex all his life, vows to study the ‘way of love’ more deeply, and so he makes a pilgrimage to a shrine and prays to the god of love. The ‘love protection’ deity appears and the man receives a strange potion which he is told will fulfil all his desires. The strange potion consists of ‘mud’ dumplings (tsuchi dango), which cause his body to shrink to the size of a bean, and a miraculous medicine which ensures that he will never age or die. The man eats the dumplings straight away, shrinks down to bean-size, and sets out on a voyage of adventure around various provinces, using the name Mane’emon. The main narrative is a description of the various sexual customs that Mane’emon witnesses in the places he visits. The first part of the story (that is, the first twelve sheets) describes the sexual habits of the common people of Edo and the provinces close to the city. The second part (not illustrated) concentrates on the sexual customs of Yoshiwara, Edo’s large government-licensed pleasure quarter. Across the top of each picture is the text of the story and some erotic senryu- (comic haiku) verses. In the picture itself, around the figures, are conversations between the protagonists and Mane’emon’s commentaries on the proceedings. Viewing the pictures alongside these explanations and conversations gives us an extremely clear understanding of the context of each image (see also Shunga, pp. 162–9). [HM] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_OA-0-88 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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