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UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI: LADY OF THE EVENING FACES: YAZAMA’S WIFE ORIE
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2023年12月01日 开拍 / 2023年11月29日 截止委托
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UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI: LADY OF THE EVENING FACES: YAZAMA’S WIFE ORIE

By Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga with seal Yoshi Kiri
Japan, 1845–1846

Color woodblock print on paper. Vertical oban. Signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga with the artist’s Yoshi Kiri seal, censor’s seal: Watari; publisher Iseya Ichibei with seal. Titled Yugao: Yazama-shi no shitsu Orie (Lady of the Evening Faces: Yazama’s Wife Orie), number 4 in the series Genji-gumo ukiyo e-awase (Ukiyo-e Parallels for the Cloudy Chapters of the Tale of Genji).

Orie, the wife of Yazama, walking in the snow with a large dog, carrying a rolled-cup straw mat. Poem inscribed to the colophon.

Inscriptions: Inscribed with a poem, ‘Yorite koso/ sore ka to mo mime/ tasogare ni/ honobono mitsuru/ hana no yugao’.

SIZE of the sheet 36 x 24.1 cm

Condition: Great impression and excellent colors, with trimmed margins. Very minor foxing, one tiny hole, mounted on Japan paper.

Each of the fifty-four chapters of The Tale of Genji is named and is associated with a crest called a 'Genji-mon'. In this series, each of the first fifty-four prints portray various scenes from history, legend, and literature that are suggested by a specific chapter of the novel and the appropriate Genji-mon is shown in the upper left cartouche with a poem. This series consists of one design for each of the fifty-four chapters and six supplementary designs.

This print from a set of sixty intriguingly combines references from The Tale of Genji’s Chapter 4, “The Lady of the Evening Faces,” with a seemingly unrelated scene from Kabuki theater—a culmination of Edo-period experimentation with parodic imagery. What does a streetwalker with a dog on a snowy night have to do with Genji? The woman is Orie, estranged wife of one of the “Forty-Seven Ronin” featured in numerous Kabuki and puppet plays. Here she is conflated with the tragic heroine Yugao, invoked by the yugao (moonflower) blossom and Genji poem on the scroll above. Like Yugao, who was killed by an angry spirit, Orie will meet a violent demise before the night is through.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting. The range of Kuniyoshi's subjects included many genres: landscapes, beautiful women, Kabuki actors, cats, and mythical animals. He is known for depictions of the battles of legendary samurai heroes. Kuniyoshi's work is held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Nasher Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Van Gogh Museum.

Museum comparison:
An identical print is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.28819. Another identical print is in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 2008,3037.17404.

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