Set of Delicate Ladies of Our Country
(Honchô taoyame
sori)
Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi
c. 1845
The prints in this series are
each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.
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Lady:
Poetess Chiyo of Kaga standing with a fan and a blue pot of morning-glories
beside her Robinson:
S33.1 |
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Lady:
Hotoke-gozen, a shirabyôshi dancer
who became Kiyomori’s mistress, in traveling dress by moonlight Robinson:
S33.2 |
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Lady:
Kesa-gozen wearing a kimono with a
wisteria pattern that is blowing in the breeze Robinson:
S33.3 |
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Lady:
Shidzuka-gozen, a dancer who became Yoshitsune’s mistress, standing and
wearing a large black sash Robinson:
S33.4 |
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Lady: Muro
no Ukareme, a courtesan from Muro (present-day Murotsu) who is said to have
been an incarnation of the Buddhist
deity Fugen Bosatsu Robinson:
S33.5 |
‘Robinson’ refers to listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its unpublished supplement.
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