1933.4.1612.5: 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)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1612.5
- People
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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
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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
- 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
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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)
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inscription: Chōzan: Harugasumi / tatsu o misutete / yuku kari wa / Hananaki sato ni / sumi ya naraeru (Kokin wakashū)
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
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Detached illustration from a large accordion-fold printed book.
Verification Level
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