Catalog record · 目録番号 68506
Nakatsukasa
Catalog note / 解説
With narrow eyes, a nose line leading to pursed lips and tiny facial features on a delicately slim figure, Harunobu’s beauties dominated the Meiwa era(1764-1772). A kamuro (child trainee) is delivering a client’s letter to the home of a courtesan. The meaning of the classic poem has been parodied into a lament over the client’s regret at not visiting. Akikaze no/fuku ni tsukete mo/towanu kana Haginoha naraba/oto wa shitemashi “ The autumn wind has begun to blow and still you do not visit/ Even the bush clover is knocking!” (Tadashi Kobayashi, Edo Beauties in Ukiyo-e, 1994) With narrow eyes, a nose line leading to pursed lips, and tiny facial features on a slim figure, Harunobu’s beauties do…
Image record / 画像情報
Honolulu · c. 1767 - 1768 · honolulu
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