hashira-e;
print
- Museum number
- OA+,0.62
- Description
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Colour woodblock pillar print, hashira-e. Shidoken sitting in Asakusa Kannon Temple (Senso-ji) precincts, and banging on desk with wooden phallus. With poem. Inscribed, signed, sealed and marked.
- Production date
- 1760 (c. ?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 66.50 centimetres (Image)
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Height: 81.40 centimetres (Mounted)
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Width: 30.50 centimetres (Mounted)
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Width: 9.70 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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Originally a Shingon monk, Fukai Shidoken (?1680-1765) became an eccentric popular story-teller. Banging the table with a wooden phallus, his stories were often wild and erotic. Here the sign advertises 'old battle tales'.
(Label copy, TCC 1998)
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Smith 1988
The 'crossroads lecturer' Shidoken sits in the Asakusa Kannon Temple precincts. He makes his points by banging on his desk with a wooden phallus. Shidoken specialised in war stories. The print is signed 'Painted by Seigyu Gyochin'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 Oct 14 - 2011 Apr 3, BM, Images and Sacred Texts: Buddhism across Asia
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- OA+,0.62
