diptych print
- Museum number
- 1945,1013,0.7
- Title
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Object: Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami 吉原傾城新美人合自筆鏡
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Series: Seiro Meikun Jippitsu-shu
- Description
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Woodblock print, diptych, album leaf. Bijinga. The courtesans (tayu) Utagawa and Nanasato of the Yotsumeya on balcony,+ maids. Poem. 1 of 2. Opening 6 of the book 'Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami'.
- Production date
- 1761-1816 (artist)
- Curator's comments
- Utagawa sits learning the words of a new Ogie school song, while Mamasato is about to write a verse about the blossoming cherry onto a narrow poem-card (tanzaku). Her robe is decorated with vignette scenes from the classical novel of courtly life 'Tale of Genji'. (Label copy, TTC, 1999.)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1945
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1945,1013,0.7
