1933.4.1612.3: The courtesans Hanaōgi and Takigawa of the Ogi 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
- 1933.4.1612.3
- People
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Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Japanese (Edo 1761 - 1816)
- Title
- The courtesans Hanaōgi and Takigawa of the Ogi 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
- Transliterated Title: Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami: Ogiya no Hanaōgi, Takigawa
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- Mid Edo period, 1784
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Tōkyō
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/208237
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Detached illustration from a large accordion-fold printed book; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.8 x 51 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: Hanaōgi: [two stanzas from a Tang poetry anthology]
Ka ni zo shire / sato no hatsu hana / sakisomete / sode ni tamoto ni / niou ume zo mo [her own waka]
(Infatuated by the scent, one smells the fragrance of the first flowering plums of the Yoshiwara even in one's pockets and one's sleeves)
Takigawa: [lines from a Tang poetry anthology] [waka by Mibu no Tadamine written from left to right, unlike all the other inscriptions in this set]
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inscription: Hanaōgi: [two stanzas from a Tang poetry anthology]
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
- 1933.4.1612.3
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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