Beauty (Taifu) / Yokoi Kinkoku
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.45
- Title
- Beauty (Taifu)
- Artist
- Yokoi Kinkoku
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1761-1832
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century - early 19th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia
- Japan
- Creation Place 1
- Asia
- Creation Place 2
- Japan
- Style/Group/Movement
- literati
- Inscription
- Inscribed by unidentified scholar; One seal; Artist's seal in lower right
- Dimensions
- 136.8 cm x 46.7 cm (53 7/8 in. x 18 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Physical Description
- A colored image of a single woman at the center of the scroll. She appears to be seated though there is nothing beneath her. Her kimono is grey with green grass designs and her under kimono is white. Her obi is a red and green stylized design. Above her head is an inscription.
- Subject Matter
- A single courtesan with an inscription above her written by someone named Taiga, quoting the priest Ikkyu. One of Ikkyu's sermons told of how he had encountered a beautiful courtesan that was so impressed by his teachings that she wanted to become a nun.
- Secondary Keywords
- asia
- asian
- entertainers
- forms
- locality
- making art
- objects
- people and occupations
- standing
- text-based art
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 464 x 1442
- File Size
- 66 KB
- Record
- 1984/2.45
- Link to this Item
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"Beauty (Taifu); Yokoi Kinkoku." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1984-sl-2.45/1984_2.45.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.