File:Painting, hanging scroll (BM 1913,0501,0.392 1).jpg
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[edit]painting, hanging scroll
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painting, hanging scroll |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Asia |
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Accession number |
1913,0501,0.392 |
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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. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1913-0501-0-392 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Camera manufacturer | Epson |
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Camera model | Exp10000XL |
Width | 6,099 px |
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Compression scheme | Uncompressed |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Image width | 3,164 px |
Image height | 5,885 px |
Date and time of digitizing | 16:52, 15 February 2007 |
File change date and time | 10:38, 20 February 2007 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows |
Date metadata was last modified | 10:38, 20 February 2007 |