The Discharge of a Hundred Men and a Box of Tissues
Titles
- Hyakunin isshutsu shokushibako
- 百人一出拭紙箱
- Shunga
Artist
Kitao Sekkōsai
(Active 1744-1781)
Date1766
GeographyJapan
MediumWoodblock-printed book; ink on paper
DimensionsŌhon: 9 13/16 x 7 1/16 in. (25 x 18 cm)
ClassificationsBooks & Manuscripts
Credit LinePurchase, Richard Lane Collection, 2003 (2016-56-009)
Object number2016-56-009
DescriptionLittle biographical information about the Osaka-based artist Kitao Sekkosai, known also as Kitao Tokinobu, is available beyond the assertion that he studied under Ippitsusai Buncho (d. 1791). His compositional style, however, particularly his tendency to depict embracing couples in horizontal, tightly cropped views, is highly reminiscent of Tsukioka Settei (1710-1786), whose work is on display nearby. The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu is an anthology of one hundred Japanese waka (thirty-one-syllable poems) composed by various authors over a period of three hunded years and compiled by the scholar Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) while living in the Ogura district of Kyoto, Japan during the early 13th century. The title of Teika’s work literally means “The Ogura Edition of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets,” and in the hopes of draining that title of its pretense, Sekkosai makes slight alterations in the Chinese characters that comprise it.
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Utagawa Hiroshige
c. 1832 - 1833
