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The Pink (Tokonatsu) Chapter 26
Kunisada I (Toyokuni III), 1853, Wood cut
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The Pink (Tokonatsu) Chapter 26 from the series "A Modern Collection of Genji in Colour Prints" ("Ima Genji nishiki-e awase")
Description
In this print Mitsuuji (Genji) is depicted holding up an umbrella to shelter a young woman from the rain. The white linear pattern of the rain is set against a dark to pale grey graduated background. Mitsuuji is wearing a purple kimono decorated with his crest of crossed cloves. The kimono's pattern is a combination of swirling golden foliage and blue flowers.
The woman crouches down besides a clump of red and yellow carnations. She wears elaborate golden hairpins (kogai) and a red kimono patterned with large floral roundels. Both characters wear platform wooden clogs (geta).
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: Fuku and Muramatsu (1849-53)
Date seal: Rat year, intercalary month (1852)
Kyoka poem
Murasaki Shikibu 'Tale of Genji', 'Tokonatsu', Chapter 26. In this chapter Genji asks Kobai to tell him more about how To no Chujo (Kobai's father) has discovered another daughter and taken her into his household. This newly discovered daughter, Omi no Kimi, is very countrified and attracts ridicule from the courtiers.
Genji brings To no Chujo's sons and Yugiri (Genji's son) very close to Tamakazura's lodgings so that they can admire the pinks in bloom. Tamakazura allows Genji to draw closer to her in order to teach her how to play the koto, and she is impressed to learn from Genji that her father, To no Chujo, is a fine musician. Genji is torn between arranging for Tamakazura to be married and keeping her for himself. To no Chujo is still unaware that Tamakazura is also his daughter, but he has heard that she is both remarkable and a beauty. To no Chujo is so embarrassed by Omi no Kimi's lack of grace that he decides to send her off to attend her sister (the Kokiden Consort) at the palace.
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'A Modern Collection of Genji in Colour'
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