| schema:description 10 | "culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)" |
| schema:description | "tombstone: Courtesan Reading a Letter, early 1800s. Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771-1844), calligraphy by Ota Nanpo (Japanese, 1749-1823). Two-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper; image: 156.8 x 165.4 cm (61 3/4 x 65 1/8 in.); overall: 175.2 x 183.5 cm (69 x 72 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.261...(more)" |
| schema:description | "type: Painting" |
| schema:description | "collection: ASIAN - Folding screen" |
| schema:description | "creditline: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith" |
| schema:description | "inscription: painting: Signed: Teisai
Sealed: Hokuba
calligraphy: Signed: Shokusanjin" |
| schema:description | "measurements: Image: 156.8 x 165.4 cm (61 3/4 x 65 1/8 in.); Overall: 175.2 x 183.5 cm (69 x 72 1/4 in.)" |
| schema:description | "technique: two-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper" |
| schema:description | "id: 152433" |
| schema:description | "wall_description: Teisai Hokuba, a disciple of the famed painter and print designer Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), is best known for his private edition poetry-print designs, or <em>surimono</em>, and hanging scroll paintings. The screen format is unusual for him. On the right panel, he has depicted a courtesan reading a letter, a popular theme in ukiyo-e painting. On the left panel, Ota Nanpo, a writer in Hokuba's circle, brushed a poem that humorously compares the courtesan to the legendary 9th-century poet Ono no Komachi: <br>Having been asked to stay over, <br>I stayed on-and for a good reason: <br>It's way past midnight [closing time in the Yoshiwara] <br>And the lady is that (legendary implorer) Amagoi Komachi....(more)" |
