Suminoto of the Ōkanaya, from the series Models for Fashion: New Year Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyō 雛形若菜の初模様 大かなや内 住の戸)
Suminoto of the Ōkanaya, from the series Models for Fashion: New Year Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyō 雛形若菜の初模様 大かなや内 住の戸)

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Suminoto of the Ōkanaya, from the series Models for Fashion: New Year Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyō 雛形若菜の初模様 大かなや内 住の戸),

ca. 1777–78 [An’ei 6–7]

Isoda Koryūsai 礒田湖龍斎, 1735–1790
Published by Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八 (Eijudō 永寿堂)
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
2009-14

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Title
Suminoto of the Ōkanaya, from the series Models for Fashion: New Year Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyō 雛形若菜の初模様 大かなや内 住の戸)
Dates

ca. 1777–78 [An’ei 6–7]

Maker
Isoda Koryūsai 礒田湖龍斎
Published by Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八 (Eijudō 永寿堂)
Medium
Woodblock print (ōban tate-e format); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
sheet trimmed to block: 38.1 x 25.4 cm. (15 x 10 in.) mount: 43.1 x 30.3 cm. (16 15/16 x 11 15/16 in.) mat: 55.7 x 40.6 cm. (21 15/16 x 16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, The Anne van Biema Collection Fund
Object Number
2009-14
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Signatures
signed: Koryūsai ga 湖龍斎画
Description
This elegantly composed print depicts courtesan Suminoe of the Ōkanaya house dressed in the latest fashion having her hair combed by her attendant in front of a mirror. The artist, Koryūsai, was an extremely prolific print designer, with over one hundred and seventy series and more than two thousand five hundred designs attributed to his name. This print is in his most famous and important series—Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyō (Models for Fashion: New Designs for Young Leaves)—in which he does stake out a claim for originality. This series represents Koryūsai’s courtesan imagery, and new trends in depicting contemporary themes and fashions of the floating world in the mid-1770s when the Yoshiwara pleasure district was restructured and reemerged. Although many of Koryūsai’s early prints included generic images of courtesans, prints in this Hinagata series identify the courtesans and the brothel house they belonged to.
Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
japanese printmaking styles, oban, woodblock prints, prints
Materials
oban, color, paper, ink
Techniques
woodcut (process)
Subject
courtesans, figures (representations), attendants, combs (grooming tools), women

– Collection of Henri Vever (1854–1942) (France).

–1976 Sotheby Parke Bernet (London, UK), by auction.

–2009 Sebastian Izzard LLC, Asian Art (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.

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