File:Painting, handscroll, shunga (BM 1978,0123,0.2).jpg
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[edit]painting, handscroll, shunga
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Title |
painting, handscroll, shunga |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Description |
English: Painting. Shunga, mounted as handscroll. Two maids raped by three workmen in service area: one waitress still holding sake kettle is abused by two men at once; another woman is violated by another man next to tub on verandah. Ink and colour on silk. Burn marks along top and bottom. Signed and sealed. |
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Date | 1789-1801 (c.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
silk medium QS:P186,Q37681 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Asia |
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Accession number |
1978,0123,0.2 |
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Notes |
Clark 1992 No matter how impressed we are by Toyoharu's sure grasp of the human form and the freshness of his colouring, there is no avoiding the fact that this is a scene of rape, and violent rape at that. Two maids working in the service area of some restaurant or mansion (to judge by the assorted paraphernalia stacked up behind them - tatami, braziers, a flower vase, an umbrella) have been set upon by three burly workmen who clearly had been sweeping the garden until they threw down their brooms for the attack. Dropping her tray of cups and dishes in terror, a waitress still holds the sake kettle as she is abused by two men at once. Her companion has not even had time to stop washing cloths in a tub on the verandah before she, too, is violated. There can be little doubt that the original intent of the work was to titillate, and we can only wonder why such elegant accomplishment has been lavished on so base a theme. Rape scenes are not unusual as one of a series of (generally twelve) otherwise affectionate scenes in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century erotic prints and paintings. Only rarely do they convey a real and direct sense of terror and pain - as in the case of Utamaro's famous scene of a woman biting her attacker in 'Utamakura' ('Poem of the Pillow', 1788) -and all too often, as here, the aggressors wear the characteristic smirk that is evidence of pandering to fantasy. The painting has clearly had a chequered existence, as evidenced by the burn marks along the top and bottom: either a previous owner was about to commit it to the flames and then thought better of it, or else it was the first thing he rescued when there was a fire! The positioning of the signature is curious - one would generally expect to find it in the bottom left-hand corner if the original format were that of a handscroll -and yet it is hard to imagine a subject such as this being displayed as a normal hanging scroll in a 'tokonoma' (display alcove). |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1978-0123-0-2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 14:47, 13 February 2007 |
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Date metadata was last modified | 10:57, 14 February 2007 |