Surimono catalogue FINAL WEB.pdf - Sanders of Oxford
Surimono catalogue FINAL WEB.pdf - Sanders of Oxford
Surimono catalogue FINAL WEB.pdf - Sanders of Oxford
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13. The launderess Kanejo.<br />
Woodblock print with gauffage<br />
Yashima Gakutei (ca.1786 - 1868)<br />
c. 1822<br />
Shikishiban 209 x 184. mm<br />
mounted<br />
Series: Katsushikaren gakumen fujin awase: Framed Paintings <strong>of</strong> Women for the Katsushika<br />
Circle<br />
Signature: Gakutei<br />
Refrence: Keyes, Roger. The Art <strong>of</strong> <strong>Surimono</strong>: Privately publised Japanese woodblock prints and<br />
books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Sotheby, London, 1985. pg. 94, 56.<br />
Kanejo, or Okane, was a prostitute in Kaizu, a town on the north shore <strong>of</strong> Lake Biwa, and a<br />
strategic point on the road bewtween Kyoto and Tsuruga in Echizen Province.One day while she<br />
was laundering by the lake, a runaway horse approached her. She planted one <strong>of</strong> her woden<br />
sandals on the horse’s reins and held it there firmly until the animal was subdued. The poem is by<br />
Kaentei Shigeki.<br />
Condition: Slightly faded and slightly soiled. Some overall creasing.<br />
[27840]<br />
£650
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