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七夕遊びに興じる遊女と若衆
Tanabata Festival
七夕遊びに興じる遊女と若衆
Japanese
Edo period
about 1718 (Kyôhô 3)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions
Hosoban; 21.5 x 30.2 cm (8 7/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1322.3
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
A Yoshiwara courtesan and her young lover are preparing decorations for the Tanabata festival on the seventh day of the seventh month. A playful kamuro (child attendant of a courtesan) has arranged two bamboo stalks in the shape of a boat, which she pretends to row along the River of Heaven (the Milky Way). The festival commemorates the annual meeting of two heavenly lovers who are separated by the river and allowed to come together just once each year.
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 21
Signed
Torii Kiyomasu zu
鳥居清倍図
鳥居清倍図
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross