Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1612.3
People
Kitao Masanobu, 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
print
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
  • 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]

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

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Verification Level

This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu