Art Institute of Chicago
Standing Geisha
Ishikawa ToyonobuLinkedCulture matchlcp-d026c35f12b7
- Date
- c. 1748
- Medium
- Hand-colored woodblock print; urushi-e, vertical oban diptych
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 21458
A geisha holds a practice book for a narrative musical ( joruri ) in her left hand and a plectrum ( bachi ) for playing the shamisen in her right hand. She is on her way to her music lessons. This joruri was first performed at the Nakamura theater in 1744. The crest ( mon ) on the geisha’s boldly patterned kimono depicts the character some , which was perhaps part of her name.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- William Henry Ketcham, New York; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Mar. 4, 1895; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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