Asazuma Boat (right) and Dandelions (left)

Category

Library Item

Item no

18961

Title

Asazuma Boat (right) and Dandelions (left)

Description

This image represents a theme from music and stage performances known as Asazuma-bune of a woman who operated as a prostitute from a boat on the river. It was associated with sentiments of loneliness and melancholy.

Artist / maker

Kano, Tosen Nakanobu

Date

1845

Size

28.8 x 14.5 cm

Type

Ink and colour; Mixed media

Location

Art and Design Library

From an album of miniature hanging scrolls:

Asazuma Boat is a painting by Kano Tosen Nakanobu and Dandelions is a painting by Kano Tangen Moritsune.

This album comprises 76 pages of miniature paintings (and some calligraphies), the majority by artists of the Kano lineage, who worked for the ruling military regime. Each work is signed and sealed in miniature, and has been given a full brocade mounting as if it were a hanging scroll.

Information provided by Dr Rosina Buckland (National Museum of Scotland).

This album was donated to Edinburgh City Libraries by Marie Ferguson Dyer in honour of her father Henry Dyer. Dyer was a Scottish engineer who became the first Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1872.

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