id: 123177
accession number: 1943.4
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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
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creation date: 1799
creation date earliest: 1799
creation date latest: 1799
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creditline: Gift of Mrs. Ralph King
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culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique: Surimono; color woodblock print
department: Japanese Art
collection: Japanese Art
type: Print
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CREATORS
* Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 56.6 x 21 cm (22 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
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inscription: Signature: Sori aratame Hokusai ga
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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).
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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.
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PROVENANCE
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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.
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