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A Waste of Weeds (Yomogiu) Chapter 15
Kunisada I (Toyokuni III), 1853, Wood cut
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A Waste of Weeds (Yomogiu) Chapter 15 from the series "A Modern Collection of Genji in Colour Prints" ("Ima Genji nishiki-e awase")
Description
Three women are seated by a worn folding screen in a dilapidated building. This is an allusion to the residence of Suetsumuhana in Murasaki Shikibu's 'Tale of Genji'. The sliding screen, to the right, painted with a landscape is also torn. The woman at the back peers through the holes in the screen, while the other two women discuss a private matter. The central figure holds up a folded letter and speaks to the younger girl at her side. A lamp with a wicker shade stands to their left. The women wear highly patterned kimono and the central figure is seated on a square cushion.
The season is autumn, and red maple leaves are visible.
This image derives from the serial novel or 'gokan', 'A Fake Murasaki and a Rustic Genji' (Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji) written by Ryutei Tanehiko and illustrated by Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), that was published between 1829-1842. This story reworks elements from the 'Tale of Genji' and transposes the action from the Heian period (794-1185) to the time of the Muromachi era's Onin Wars (1467-1477).
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Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
Date
1853
Size
27.9 x 19.8 cm
Type
Wood cut
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Art and Design Library
Signed: Toyokuni ga
Censors' seals: Hama and Magome (1849-53)
Date seal: Ox year, 1st month (1853)
Kyoka poem
Murasaki Shikibu 'Tale of Genji', 'Yomogiu', Chapter 15. In this chapter Genji stops by at the home of Suetsumuhana and discovers that she has fallen further into poverty during the period of his exile. Genji sends his servants to clear the weeds from her grounds and repair the walls and broken fences. In time, Genji moves Suetsumuhana to the east pavilion of his newly built residence at Nijo.
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