Handscroll of Brushworks by Prostitutes
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- メイギショカン
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
This handscroll is a collection of brushworks of poems and letters written by renowned prostitutes working at entertainment quarters. It contains renditions by Takao, who worked in the famous Yoshiwara red-light district of Edo, Yoshino Dayu, a well-known prostitute from Kyoto, and a dozen other women. Although not many accounts of their lives exist today, these women were equivalent to today’s “celebs” and charmed the world not only with their great beauty but also with their deep learning in waka, calligraphy and other cultural pursuits, in addition to singing and dancing skills. Only a few brushworks by geisha women have survived to this day, thus the exhibited scroll is truly a rarity. The writing style reflects the Otsu School, patterned after Ono-no-Otsu (1568-1631?), whose brushstrokes were regarded highly by women of the upper class. The dozens of geisha women selected different decorated ryoshi and wrote waka poems on them in a most elegant manner.
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- Title (EN)
- Handscroll of Brushworks by Prostitutes
Physical description
- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1巻
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 染紙 金銀切箔散
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