id: 123177 accession number: 1943.4 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.4 updated: 2022-01-04 15:28:58.364000 Tsukasa and Other Courtesans of the Ogiya Watching the Autumn Moon Rise Over Rice Fields from a Balcony in the Yoshiwara, 1799. Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849). Surimono; color woodblock print; sheet: 56.6 x 21 cm (22 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Ralph King 1943.4 title: Tsukasa and Other Courtesans of the Ogiya Watching the Autumn Moon Rise Over Rice Fields from a Balcony in the Yoshiwara title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1799 creation date earliest: 1799 creation date latest: 1799 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. Ralph King copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: Surimono; color woodblock print department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 56.6 x 21 cm (22 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signature: Sori aratame Hokusai ga translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art of the Surimono opening date: 1979-02-25T05:00:00 Art of the Surimono. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (February 25-March 25, 1979). title: The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print opening date: 1988-08-09T04:00:00 The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 9-October 16, 1988). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Indiana University Art Museum, 1979: Art of the Surimono.
Cleveland Museum of Art Prints and Drawings Department, 1988: The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print.
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994: Ukiyo-e: The Floating World Revisited.
Later Japanese Art Gallery Rotation (Gallery 113); February 20 - May 6, 2003.
Later Japanese Art Gallery Rotation (Gallery 113); August 25 - December 2, 2003. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Gomeirō is another name for the fashionable teahouse Ōgi-ya (House of Fans) in the Yoshiwara district of Edo (present-day Tokyo). Two courtesans, each attended by a geisha and a shinzō (apprentice to a courtesan) view a full autumn moon as it rises over the surrounding paddy fields. The elegance of the women's flowing robes and the serenity of the evening with a full silver moon contribute to the poetic atmosphere of this surimono, a privately commissioned print usually accompanied by text—here, a poem, which reads:

What liveliness! Geisha, shinzō, and jesters
fill the room, all guests of the moon. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.4/1943.4_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.4/1943.4_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.4/1943.4_full.tif