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- Title
- Courtesan Reading a Letter
- Artist
- Ishikawa Toyonobu
- Artist Life Dates
- 1711-1785
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1744-1746
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.129
- Medium and Support
- long-and-large size hand-colored woodblock print (urushi e) on paper (chôôban)
- relevance
- rank 35.96210
- Title
- Hanging a Poem on a Cherry Tree
- Artist
- Ishikawa Toyonobu
- Physical Description
- A color woodblock print of a young woman hanging a paper with poem on a cherry tree. The woman is in a kimono with intricate design of cherry blossom, hemp leaves, birds and swirls, pine trees and diamond patterns. She also wears broad obi (sash) in checkerboard patterns, which is bow- tied on her back. There is also a white sash underneath the obi, which supports her long kimono. Her hair is tied on the back and adorn with tortoise-shell comb and pin. The cherry tree is in full bloom; there is a curtain with a family crest behind the woman and the tree; a certain kind of platform with swirling vine pattern is peaking below the curtain. The overall color scheme is in yellow, orange, black and white (the color of the paper). There are artist’s signature and two seals on the right bottom corner, and smaller seal on the left bottom corner.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1711-1785
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1746-1749
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.130
- Medium and Support
- Urushi-e (color woodblock print) on paper
- relevance
- rank 35.96210