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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1612.5
People
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Japanese (Edo 1761 - 1816)
Title
The courtesans Hinazuru and Chōzan of the Chōji House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 吉原傾城新美人合自筆鏡
Transliterated Title: Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami: Chōjiya no Hinazuru, Chōzan
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1784 (Tenmei 4)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tōkyō
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/208238

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
horizontal double ôban: 37.8 x 51 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Chōzan: Harugasumi / tatsu o misutete / yuku kari wa / Hananaki sato ni / sumi ya naraeru (Kokin wakashū)
    (Wild geese flying over the mists of spring, are you indifferent to the sight, used as you are to the flowerless land?)
    Hinazuru: Hototogisu / nakitsuru kata o / nagamureba / tada ariake no / tsuki zo nokoreru (Fujiwara Sanesada)
    (When I turned to catch the source of the cuckoo's call, all I saw was the moon in the early dawn sky)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.1612.5
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Detached illustration from a large accordion-fold printed book.

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