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Print artist: Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿)

Written by: Mitsugian Noritsugu (貢菴則次 ) (kyoka)
Published by: Matsumura Tatsuemon (松村辰右衛門 )
Title
print
Description
English: Colour woodblock print. Bust portrait of courtesan; women pounding cloth with pestles in mortar and stretching it out in Chofu Jewel River in inset landscape; pestles with flowing water pattern in background; with poem. Nishiki-e on paper, with gauffrage. Inscribed, signed, marked and sealed.
Date 1795-1796 (ca.)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 36.80 centimetres
Width: 24.50 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1906,1220,0.332
Notes

Asano and Clark 1995

The inset landscape shows women pounding cloth with large pestles in a mortar and then stretching it out to bleach in the river. The ‘gauffrage’ pattern of the background combines pestles with flowing water. The ‘kyoka’ poem by Mitsugian Noritsugu, which plays on the fact that Yoshiwara was often called the "village" (sato), reads: "Looks just like a Jewel River 'village'/With the client drying out his towel/On the window rail/The morning after". The courtesan is depicted with her hair loose, as if after a bath. This was the particular hair-style adopted for the debut of a new courtesan in the brothel and it may be that this design was indeed published to mark the first appearance of a particular woman. See also the commentary to cat. no. 182.

Literature: Shibui, Kiyoshi 渋井清, 'Ukiyo-e zuten, vol. 13: Utamaro' 「ウキヨエ図典13 歌麿」, Kazama Shobo, Tokyo, 1964, pl. 63-2-1. "Kitagawa Utamaro sakuhin mokuroku" 「喜多川歌麿作品目録」, 'Ukiyo-e shuka', 「浮世絵聚花」, vol. 3 (Bosuton Bijutsukan III ボストン美術館３), Shogakkan, Tokyo, 1978, pp. 235-254, pl. 489-5. 'Ukiyo-e shuka' 「浮世絵聚花」, vol. 3, Shogakkan, Tokyo, 1978-85, pl. 141. 'Ukiyo-e shuka' 「浮世絵聚花」, vol. 11, Shogakkan, Tokyo, 1978-85, pl. 128. ‘Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan’「秘蔵浮世絵大観」, gen. ed. Narazaki, Muneshige, suppl. vol., Kodansha, Tokyo, 1987-90. Galerie Huguette Berès, Paris, ‘Utamaro: Estampes, livres illustrés’, Paris, 1976. (English edition with addenda London, Messrs Wildentstein, 1977.), pl. 62.

Other impressions: Huguette Berès Collection. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Tokyo National Museum 東京国立博物館.

[Main text translated in Japanese below / 以下上記本文日本語訳]

浅野／クラーク、1995

こま絵は、川辺において杵で布を打ち、布を水に晒す景。背景の空摺は流水に杵である。狂歌は次のとおり。

玉川の里とこそミめ居つゝけの きやくはれんじに洒手巾 貢菴則次

この遊女は洗髪下げ髪であり、特定の遊女の突出し（新妓が初めて店に出ること）に合わせた刊行と考えることができるかもしれない。（第182図解説参照）
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1906-1220-0-332
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