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Details
- Other Title
- Courtesan Maomachi, Courtesan Kaomachi
- Alternative title
- Yatama nai Kaomachi (illeg.)
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- circa 1830
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.5 x 26.7 cm
- Signature & date
Signed l.r.corner, in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Gototei Kunisada ga [picture by Gototei Kunisada]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1930
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 4358
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Utagawa Kunisada/Toyokuni III
Works in the collection
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About
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.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994
Four Centuries of Ukiyo-e Prints, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 07 May 1997–27 Jul 1997
Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Gary Hickey, Beauty & desire in Edo period Japan, 'Pleasure Town', pg. 25-36, Parkes, 1998, 29 (colour illus.), 70. fig.no. 23
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Verlie Just, Four Centuries of Ukiyo-e Prints, Brisbane, 1997. cat.no. 33
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Jackie Menzies, The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. C22
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'The Floating World', Sydney, 2003, 255 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
Samurai Shōkai, Yokohama/Kanagawa/Japan, purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales 1930.
