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'Sono' - Musicians from the Kiyomoto school
Yoshitsuya, 1847, Wood cut
'Sono' - Musicians from the Kiyomoto school
'Sono' - Musicians from the Kiyomoto school
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350
Title
'Sono' - Musicians from the Kiyomoto school of stage-chanting
Description
This print relates to the Niwaka Festival in which courtesans from the Yoshiwara licensed pleasure district dressed in costume and performed songs, dances and short acting skits.The two characters at the back are stage-chanters and two characters standing in front of them are courtesans dressed up as male musicians. Their fans are decorated with the word 'Sono', referring to the name of a courtesan performing in the Niwaka. On the board behind them are lists of musicians' names from the Kiyomoto school of stage-chanting. This print is a re-edition of an earlier print. The censors' seals carved into the earlier block have been overprinted to blacken them out. The name on the fan has also been clumsily changed from 'Some' to 'Sono'.
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Yoshitsuya
Date
1847
Size
36 x 24 cm.
Type
Wood cut
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Art and Design Library
The following information appears on the print:
Signed: Ichieisai Yoshitsuya ga
Artist: Koko/Ichieisai Yoshitsuya
Censors seals: 2 seals have been hidden under black ink rectangle (1847-1852)
This is one of a set of 50 prints 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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