Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 68506

Nakatsukasa

Artist / 作者: Suzuki Harunobu鈴木春信
Date / 年代: 1764-1771
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
Digital record / 画像記録: 333 × 450 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Honolulu Museum of Art
Published by / 公開者: 水野ナギ
Rights / 権利: No reusable image license documented
Attribution / 表記: Honolulu Museum of Art

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…

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