Sujet

Parody of act VII of the play "Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)", c. 1782. A man reads a letter on the engawa (veranda) of a pleasure house. On a balcony above, a courtesan reads the coded letter by looking into a mirror. The matron of the house crawls out from under the engawa below.

Légende

Parody of act VII of the play "Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)", c. 1782. Creator: Torii Kiyonaga.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A08_452

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

5,0Mo (418,3Ko) / 4,9cm x 25,4cm / 584 x 3000 (300dpi)

Mots clés

unusual building female women woman people male job man men architecture arts country balcony balconies art guy occupation reading letter color Japan Japanese veranda verandah location century gallery profession mirror spying concept printing espionage art gallery Madam Architectural Feature Colour looking glass 18th century Eighteenth Century woodblock printing artistic school brothel courtesan Edo period Ukiyo-e woodblock print Torii Kiyonaga Art Institute of Chicago Kiyonaga Torii WOODBLOCK art centre colour woodblock print Tokugawa period Heritage Art Block printing bawd engawa pleasure house Art Institute Chicago hashira-e Arts of Asia hashira-e Arts of Asia