Title
Plate with design of three women playing musical instruments
early 20th century
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Date
- early 20th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware, gilding, enamel
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 20.9 cm
- Signature & date
Signed base: Satsumayaki Hodotazô
- Credit
- Gift of Jean Frances Michaelides 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 204.2008
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Satsuma ware
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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Hodota
Works in the collection
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About
Inside a lavishly decorated room with view on a garden in full bloom three women are carrying out a concert on the 'koto', 'shamisen' and flute. The women playing the 'koto' wears a kimono with heartvine leaves ('aoi'), butterflies and a rectilinear emblem simulating a Genji-crest. This scene could be an allusion to chapter 35 (Wakana II) in the 'Tale of Genji', in which all the women in Genji's Rokujô mansion assembled to carry out a concert.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, June 2008.
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Where the work was made
Japan
