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Title
painting, hanging scroll
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Painting, hanging scroll. Priest Saigyo, wearing travelling hat and Buddhist monk's black robes and carrying walking-stick, exchanging poems with the courtesan Eguchi, standing in a doorway. Ink and colour on paper. Signed and sealed.
Depicted people Representation of: Saigyō Hōshi (西行法師)
Date between 1736 and 1748
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1736-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1748-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 116 centimetres
Width: 51 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1913,0501,0.392
Notes

Clark 1992

The famous exchange of poems between the itinerant monk Saigyo (1118-90) and a courtesan at Eguchi, on the mouth of the Yodo River near Osaka, is first recorded in the anthology 'Senjusho', attributed to Saigyo himself. He was caught in a storm and chided the courtesan, who was also named Eguchi, for refusing him temporary lodging for the night. She replied that since he was a holy man she had thought he would not wish to enjoy such transient pleasures. In the fifteenth century the episode became the basis for the No play 'Eguchi', in which Eguchi reveals herself to be a manifestation of the Bodhisattva Fugen. In the Edo period the story was further adapted in popular drama and narration and as an appropriate vehicle for 'mitate' depictions of courtesans by Ukiyo-e artists.

Saigyo, wearing a travelling hat and monk's black robes and carrying a walking-stick, is shown with his head raised in a gesture of petition, while the courtesan (dressed in contemporary eighteenth-century style) turns away from the door, as if she has already decided to refuse him lodging. Doubtless Sukenobu's patron was amused by the incongruity of seeing a smartly dressed Kyoto courtesan in such a humble thatched cottage and delighted by the contrast between her girlish features and the artist's sensitive portrait of the aged monk.

A version of 'Saigyo and Eguchi' by Miyagawa Choshun in the Powers Collection (see John Rosenfield, 'Traditions of Japanese Art', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1970, no. 143) must be almost contemporary with this Sukenobu work; both are among the earliest depictions of the theme in Ukiyo-e painting.

Literature:

'(Hizo) Ukiyo-e taikan' ('Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections'), ed. Narazaki Muneshige. Vol. 1, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1987, no. 111.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1913-0501-0-392
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