Minneapolis Institute of Art
Appearing Bewildered, Behavior of a Fireman's Wife of the Kaei Era
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Tsunajima Kamekichi; Carver: Wada YūjirōLinkedCulture matchlcp-c6186df75ba7
- Date
- February 1888
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 127943
This woman is identified as a fireman’s wife during the Kaei Era (1848–55). The jacket of her husband, hanging on the wall behind her, has a single character in red: matoi 纏; it refers to a fireman’s standard, used to signal the location of a fire. Such a jacket would have been worn by a leader of a fire brigade. In fact, it appears to be the same one worn by the leader of the Nihonbashi district fire brigade Yoshitoshi depicts in the neighboring print, suggesting the woman here is that firefighter’s wife. Japan, Asia
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- The Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, gifts of various donors, by exchange, and gift of Edmond Freis in memory of his parents, Rose and Leon Freis
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