Utagawa toyoharu biography of michaels
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Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国 (1769-1825)
Author: Takizawa Bakin 滝沢馬琴 (1767-1848)
Title: Yakusha meisho zue 戯子名所図会 (Pictorial Album of Famous Places with Actors)
Date: 1800
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon
Medium: Woodblock printed book, ink on paper
Gift of Arthur Tress, Arthur Tress Collection, Box 29, Item 11 (Toyokuni 2)
Imagination and landscape go hand in hand. Though images of places are often more deeply equated with observable reality, these images remain representation, not reality. Created at a specific moment in time, as part of a specific culture, these pictures are deeply bound with the meaning of the place. Some landscapes though are not just imagined, but are the vehicles for imagination. Through Edo period print culture, pictures of place could take on new meaning. In the hands of clever publishers, authors, and illustrators, the popularity of new geographies and topographies led to genre-crossing creations.
Yakusha meisho zue (1800), was the product of some of the top members of the Edo print world—written by Takizawa Bakin (also known as Kyokutei Bakin), illustrated by Utagawa Toyokuni, and published by Tsuruya Kiemon. While the true subject of the work was a clever commentary on contemporary kabuki, it was wrapped in the format of a meisho zue, a
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Female Entertainer with a Koto
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歌川豊春筆 蜀山人（大田 南畝）賛 琴に立美人図
Title:Female Entertainer with a Koto
Artist:Painting by Utagawa Toyoharu (Japanese, 1735–1814)
Artist: Inscription by Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo) (Japanese, 1749–1823)
Period:Edo period (1615–1868)
Date:ca. 1785; inscription early 19th century
Culture:Japan
Medium:Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions:Image: 25 11/16 × 13 3/8 in. (65.2 × 34 cm)
Overall with knobs: 60 1/2 × 20 7/16 in. (153.6 × 51.9 cm)
Overall with mounting: 60 1/2 × 18 1/2 in. (153.6 × 47 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Fishbein-Bender Collection, Gift of T. Richard Fishbein and Estelle P. Bender, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2020
Object Number:2020.393.3
Signature: Painter’s signature: (center right) Ichiryūsai Utagawa Toyoharu ga 一龍齊歌川豊春画斎; painter’s seals (square relief, above) 一龍齊; (square intaglio, below) 豊春
Inscriber’s signature: (beneath third column of poem) Shokusanjin 蜀山人
Inscription: 琴の音に みねの松葉や かよふ神
いづれのお客 しらべそめけむ
蜀山人
Koto no ne ni
mine no Matsuba-ya
Kayou-kami
izure no okyaku
shirabe somekemu
Amid the sounds of a koto
like pine needles rustling on a peak,
a courtesan of Matsubaya bro
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