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Title
hanging scroll, painting
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Painting, hanging scroll. Courtesan kneeling on thin summer quilt, holding pillow on black lacquer stand in her lap; untied long scarlet crepe silk sash scattered around, and pulling arm from sleeve of tie-dyed blue and white robe; with flushed face and few stray strands of hair trailing from otherwise stiff arrangement. Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed.



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Date 1865-1868 (c.)
Medium silk
medium QS:P186,Q37681
Dimensions

Height: 96 centimetres

Width: 30 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1881,1210,0.1754
Notes

Clark 1992

In this erotically charged work Yoshitoshi shows a courtesan kneeling on a thin summer quilt, holding a pillow on a black lacquer stand in her lap. She has already untied the long scarlet crepe silk sash, which lies scattered around her, and is pulling her arm from the sleeve of her tie-dyed blue and white robe. With flushed face and a few stray strands of hair trailing from an otherwise stiff arrangement, no doubt it is the customer on whom she fixes her gaze.

Even compared with the sensuality of Kunisada and Eisen (no. 149) Yoshitoshi's painting is remarkably candid. A sense of arrested movement is conveyed in the informality of the pose and the piercing glance, and a nervous visual excitement created by the vivid blue dots of the robe and the black diamond weave of the quilt. The characteristic drawing of the face with a long aquiline nose and jutting lower lip and jaw is found in works by all artists of the Utagawa school, including Yoshitoshi's teacher Kuniyoshi.

Literature: Anderson, William, 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum'. London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1886, no. 1754. '(Hizo) Ukiyo-e taikan' ('Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections'), ed. Narazaki Muneshige. Vol. 1, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1987, no. 182. Smith, Lawrence, 'Japanese Art: Masterpieces in the British Museum', with Victor Harris and Timothy Clark. London, British Museum Publications, 1990, no. 203.

Tokyo-to Bijutsukan (eds), 'Daiei Hakubutsukan hizo Edo bijutsu ten'. Exh. cat., 9 Aug.-24 Sept. 1990, no. 34.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1881-1210-0-1754
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