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Title
painting
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Painting, album leaf (?). Courtesan in robe decorated with chrysanthemums and butterflies walking in the rain with her retinue, comprised of a manservant carrying a long-poled umbrella and two attendants. Ink and colour on paper. Sealed and annotated.
Date between 1741 and 1748
date QS:P571,+1741-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1741-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1748-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 40.60 centimetres (mount)
Height: 27 centimetres
Width: 55.90 centimetres (mount)
Width: 37.70 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1989,0214,0.1
Notes

Clark 1992

One of the rituals of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter was the procession of a courtesan to meet a patron at one of the assignation teahouses ('ageya') which lined the main street of the quarter, Nakanocho (see also no. 63). Here a manservant carrying a long-poled umbrella attempts to protect the courtesan as she walks, tilting her head to avoid the shower, towards the teahouse hung with reed blinds, accompanied by two 'kamuro'. The pattern of chrysanthemums and butterflies on her robes and the flowering bushclover on those of her attendants suggest that this is autumn, a season prone to sudden showers.

Though this is possibly a section from a handscroll, the position of the seal suggests that it is more likely a sheet from a large album, possibly showing scenes in the Yoshiwara at different times of the year. As in the previous painting (no. 18), the figures have Moromasa's habitual red outline, yet with a sweetness and intimacy not found in his larger works. There is considerable worm damage to the top left-hand corner of the painting.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1989-0214-0-1
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