Art Institute of Chicago
Courtesan Walking
Kaigetsudo AnchiLinkedCulture matchlcp-2a194162835b
- Date
- c. 1714
- Medium
- Hand-colored woodblock print; tan-e, vertical o-oban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 127635
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Woodblock prints are regarded as the most characteristic expression of the Japanese artistic genius. Great quantities of this popular art form, called ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), were made during the Edo period (1603-1868) and sold inexpensively to a pleasure-seeking public captivated by Kabuki theater, sumo wrestling, and the brothel districts. Prints such as Kaigetsudo's hand-painted Courtesan display a freedom and originality that were not possible in the rendering of tradition-bound religious images. The beautiful woman clutches her billowing kimono, which has been decorated with the words of a poem whose author is depicted in the lining.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Jacques Doucet (1853–1929; also Jacques-Antoine Doucet), Paris; sold to Gilbert Edmund Fuller (1882–1960), Boston; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, May 1922; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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