Utagawa KUNISADA /TOYOKUNI III
(Japan 1786–1865)
- Title
- Kaomachi of Tama-ya
- Other titles:
- Courtesan Maomachi, Courtesan Kaomachi
- Alternative title:
- Yatama nai Kaomachi (illeg.)
- Place of origin
-
Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- circa 1830
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
-
Ôban tate-e: 37.5 x 26.7cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r.corner, in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Gototei Kunisada ga [picture by Gototei Kunisada]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1930
- Accession number
- 4358
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This print is technically unusual in being printed only in tones of blue. Its subject Kaomachi was a famous courtesan of the teahouse called Tama-ya.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.255.
- Bibliography (4)
-
Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. C22
Verlie Just (Australia) (Author), Four Centuries of Ukiyo-e Prints, Brisbane, 1997. cat.no. 33
Gary Hickey (Author), Beauty & desire in Edo period Japan, Parkes, 1998, 29 (colour illus.), 70. fig.no. 23
'The Floating World', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 255 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (3)
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The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994.
Four Centuries of Ukiyo-e Prints, Queensland Art Gallery, 07 May 1997–27 Jul 1997.
Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan, National Gallery of Australia, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998.
