Descriptive Information

Title

Geisha seated for her photograph.

Call Number

E Row 1/GC063/Box 14/Oversize GA 2009.00737

Identifier

ark:/88435/dc7w62fn866

Publisher

1881.

Language

No linguistic content

Date Created

1881

Extent

1 item

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Medium: Woodblock print, Color prints

Item description: The Kanji text next ot the image explains that this scene is part of a series entitled, "Twenty-four hours at Shinbashi & Yanagibashi: 12 noon." This series depicts each hour in a geisha's day, of which this particular image is for the noon hour, when the Geisha has her photograph taken. The photographer whose studio she is in is identified as Tsukuba Kitaniwa, and his studio was in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. The Seisha in this print is dressed in a purple Kimono and sits for her portrait in Kitaniwa's studio. The literal text is "Shinryu nijuyojikan; Twenty-four hours of the budding willow." Sebastian Dobson explains tht the word 'Shinryu' has a double meaning here. It is a poetic reference to the willow tree, but it also conceals an elegant contraction of the Chinese characters for the famous Tokyo pleasure quarters of Shinbaski and Yanagibashi.--from Charles Schwartz CS3466.

Format: Ôban tate-e.

Signed: "Oju Yoshitoshi ga".

Discovery Information

Subject

Artists and models—Japan—19th century—In art

Geishas—Japan—19th century—In art

Photographers—Japan—19th century—In art

Artists at work—Japan—19th century—In art

Genre painting

Physical Characteristics

File Count

2

Institutional Information

Collection

Omega Project

Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1ae412ef-ced1-4104-af7d-28f30bc25aa6/manifest

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