Left: Kyoto (Hidari, Kyô); A Woman Fond of Sake (Shusukujô / Sake konomu onna; pun on Lu Xiujing), from the series Three Smiles at Likeable Tendencies (Kokei no sanshô / Konomu katamuku mitsu warai, sanpukutsui; pun on Three Laughers in Tiger Valley)

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Left: Kyoto (Hidari, Kyô); A Woman Fond of Sake (Shusukujô / Sake konomu onna; pun on Lu Xiujing), from the series Three Smiles at Likeable Tendencies (Kokei no sanshô / Konomu katamuku mitsu warai, sanpukutsui; pun on Three Laughers in Tiger Valley)

「好傾三笑　（こけいのさんしやう　このむかたむくみつわらい）」　（＝虎渓三笑）　「酒好女（しゆすくじやう　さけこのむおんあ）　（＝陸修静）

Okumura Toshinobu (Japanese, active about 1717–1750)
Publisher: Okumuraya

Japanese

Edo period

1720s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa

Dimensions Hosoban; 30.8 x 14.7 cm (12 1/8 x 5 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8114

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 127; another print from the triptych: Thompson & Harootunian, Undercurrents in the Floating World (1991), pp. 92-3 (no photo)

DescriptionThe complicated wordplay of both the series title and the individual title of the print features two different possible pronunciations for the characters, which use puns to conflate a famous theme in Chinese-style painting, the Three Laughers of Tiger Valley, with the ukiyo-e theme of Courtesans of the Three Cities (Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka).

Signed Okumura Toshinobu hitsu
奥村利信筆

ProvenanceAugust 1919, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frederick W. Gookin; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.