Catalog record · 目録番号 22722
The Tale of the Soga Brothers
Catalog note / 解説
This 'uchiwa-e' (rigid fan print) design by Hiroshige is from a series of scenes from classical literature. However, Hiroshige put them into contemporary settings. Here he used the Yoshiwara licensed pleasure quarter in Edo (modern Tokyo) to illustrate an episode from 'The Tale of the Soga Brothers'. The text in the cartouche explains how Kajiwara Genda has fallen in love with the courtesan Kewaizaka no Shosho. He has just deliberately insulted her suitor Soga no Goro Tokimune. Tokimune, intent on avenging the death of his father, suppresses his fury and walks away without rising to the taunt. Kewaizaka no Shosho is identified by name in the small pink cartouche on the upper left. Hiroshige…
Image record / 画像情報
VAM · 1843-1847 · vam
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