Art Institute of Chicago
A Woman's Poetry Party
Chobunsai Eishi
- Date
- c. 1793
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban triptych
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Generally, the groups of women depicted in prints were courtesans and their attendants, possibly waiting for male guests. In this unusual print, well-dressed women of the upper classes arrive in the large open parlor of the palace of a daimyo (a provincial governor) near the sea at Suma. The three votive-style hangings in the tokonoma (alcove) in the right background indicate the poetry party. Shown are three ancient poets revered in the Edo period: eighth-century Kakinomoto no Hitomaro and Yamabe no Akihito; in the center is the sixth-century poetess Sotori.
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