Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 90274
A Courtesan and her Attendant Holding Masks
- Artist / 作者
- Okumura Masanobu奥村政信
- Date / 年代
- 1800-1899
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / vam
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 1494 × 2000 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- Rights / 権利
- Commercial license required
- Attribution / 表記
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Catalog note / 解説
Although produced from a woodblock, this print by Okumura Masanobu is meant to resemble a stone rubbing. Such visual playfulness is characteristic of the experimental spirit of the urban arts during the Edo period (1615–1868) in Japan. Masanobu was a print designer, painter and publisher of early <i>ukiyo-e</i>, or ‘pictures of the floating world’. His influence on the development of the genre cannot be overestimated. Among other achievements, he has been credited as the innovator of these imitation stone rubbings. In this print, a courtesan and her young female attendant hold up masks. Stone rubbings were typically taken of important monuments, and the depiction of a scene from one of Japa…
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