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triptych print   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print artist: Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿)

Published by: Tsutaya Juzaburo (蔦屋重三郎)
Title
triptych print
Description
English: Colour woodblock triptych print. Feast in a Chinese house of courtesans; women in Chinese dress, reading, playing music and games; landscape with lake and mountains in background. Signed and marked.
Date circa 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 36.50 centimetres (each)
Width: 24 centimetres (each)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1909,0618,0.84.1-3
Notes

Smith 1988

A fanciful reconstruction of a Chinese house of courtesans, but in fact populated by typical Utamaro women in only slightly modified dress. The background scenery is in the style of the official Kano School which Utamaro both despised and envied. The print was probably published to coincide with an embassy from the Ryukyu Islands in 1790. Japanese of the time perceived the Ryukyuans as 'Chinese'. It is signed 'Painted by Utamaro'.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1909-0618-0-84-1-3
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