Detail View: The AMICA Library: Courtesans Promenading on the Nakanocho
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1930.211.c
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AMICA Library Year:
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2002
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Object Type:
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Prints
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Creator Name:
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Toyokuni, Utagawa
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Creator Nationality:
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Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1769 - 1825
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Utagawa Toyokuni
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Title:
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Courtesans Promenading on the Nakanocho
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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c. 1790
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Creation Start Date:
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1785
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Creation End Date:
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1795
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Materials and Techniques:
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triptych: color woodblock print
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Classification Term:
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Print
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Dimensions:
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Sheet: 37.8cm x 25.8cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1930.211.c
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Credit Line:
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Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
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Inscriptions:
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Signature: Toyokuni ga Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Senichi han) |
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Rights:
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Provenance:
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Hayashi Tadamasa (Yamanaka & Co.) |
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Context:
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The Yoshiwara was the famed pleasure district of 17th-18th-century Edo (present-day Tokyo). In the early evening it was customary for elaborately dressed courtesans to promenade on the main thoroughfare, accompanied by attendants. Usually there were two kamuro (young girl attendants), two shinzo (older girl attendants not yet of courtesan rank), a male lantern-bearer, a male umbrella-bearer, and a yarita (old woman chaperone). Only some of these attendants may be depicted with the courtesan-a highly popular subject in paintings and prints. The fashions of the time are faithfully recorded in these pictures. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.AM20020271.tif
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