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Print artist: Okumura Masanobu (奥村政信)

Inscription by: Ota Nanpo (大田南畝)
Title
Yukun sennin 遊君仙人 (Courtesans - Immortals)
Description
English: Illustrated book, folding album (ori-gajo). 11 openings with parody pictures (mitate-e) of courtesans representing immortals in various situations, e.g. the Three Laughers of Tiger Ravine, the Four Sleepers, Wang Ziqiao, Daruma, Chao Fu and Xu You and the Three Sake Tasters. Woodblock-printed images with titled cartouche, final image signed.
Depicted people Representation of: Wang Ziqiao 王子喬
Date circa 1710
date QS:P571,+1710-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 27.50 centimetres
Width: 19.20 millimetres (closed)
Width: 38.20 centimetres (open)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1915,0823,0.12
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This illustration [final opening] is a parody of a well-known classical painting subject that showed the founders of the three great creeds of Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism. They are all drinking vinegar, and are forced into the uncharacteristic agreement that it tastes awful. Here the sages are represented by three types of prostitute: a bikuni entertainer; a high-ranked courtesan, and an apprentice (male) Kabuki actor. They are shown serving themselves from a barrel of sake (rice wine) with obvious enjoyment.A dozing courtesan, two attendants and pet cat impersonate the 'four sleepers' of medieval Zen painting.

The album Yûkun sennin ('Courtesans - Immortals') contains eleven black and white prints from what was probably a set of twelve. Each illustration humorously gives the three, usually female, figures the attributes of Chinese hermits and holy men in appropriate settings. Another page shows a coutesan conversing with the Immortal Gama, whose attribute is a toad.

The British Museum also has the wooden block used to print two of the illustrations, carved back-to-back on a single piece of cherry wood. Masanobu designed hundreds of such 'parody pictures' (mitate-e) in the early 18th century. The album was rebound and inscribed by Ota Nampo (1749-1823). (TTC, 1998)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1915-0823-0-12
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