Catalog record · 目録番号 110081
Princess Sotoori and the Spider
Catalog note / 解説
This print was conserved with the support of the Robert F. Lange Foundation. This early black and white print presents Princess Sotoori, legendary beauty and concubine to Emperor Ingyö (412-456). The eighth-century Nihongi (also known as the Nihonshoki, or Chronicles of Japan) describes her countenance as so radiant that it shone out through her clothes (sotoori ). The intricate composition of the print depicts the princess as a Heian-period female aristocrat standing on a veranda, dressed in a twelve-layered formal court dress and holding a fan. The depiction is historically inaccurate, since Princess Sotoori lived centuries before the formal dress styles of the Heian court were developed.…
Image record / 画像情報
Honolulu · 1740s · honolulu
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