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Title
painting, hanging scroll
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Painting, hanging scroll. Two attendants of a Yoshiwara courtesan in a cloud emanating from a parcel of clams, a New Year's gift attached to a branch of flowering white plum. Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed.



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Date between 1795 and 1818
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1818-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium silk
medium QS:P186,Q37681
Dimensions
Height: 81 centimetres
Width: 31.20 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1913,0501,0.404
Notes

Clark 1992

Two 'kamuro' attendants of a Yoshiwara courtesan are shown in a cloud emanating from a parcel of clams, a New Year gift attached to a branch of flowering white plum. This curious subject must derive from a pun on a phrase in the ancient Chinese Han dynasty chronicles, the 'Shi ji' (Japanese: 'Shiki'), in which occurs the assertion that palaces can be created from the air (or 'breath') which emanates from clams. In Edo-period Japan 'ro' (palace) had the specific secondary meaning of one of the grand licensed brothels of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter. Probably through some 'kyoka' poet's witty word-play this gave rise to a series of images by Eishi in which a courtesan or her attendants (or both) are shown in clouds coming out of clams. Big clams send out courtesans, while little ones (as here) produce only child attendants. The title given this subject in Japanese, paraphrasing the original Chinese, is 'Shinkiro' ('Palace Emanating from the Clam'). Perhaps the recipient of a present of clams also hoped to get a courtesan.

As with the painting 'Kamuro Shaving the Pate of Fukurokuju' (no. 76), the figures are in Ukiyo-e polychrome, while the clams and plum branch are very much in Kano ink-wash style.

Literature: Brandt, Klaus J. 'Hosoda Eishi 1756-1829'. Stuttgart, K. J. Brandt, 1977, painting no. 443.

'(Hizo) Ukiyo-e taikan' ('Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections'), ed. Narazaki Muneshige. Vol. 1, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1987, BW no. 19.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1913-0501-0-404
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