Musical Party, late 17th century
Hishikawa Moronobuexpand_more
Ink and color on silkexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.103
Not on Viewexpand_more
Five fashionable prostitute and a male figure playing the shamisen gather before a folding screen painted with an autumnal scene of a red sun and white chrysanthemums. One of the elegant prostitutes also plays a shamisen, while two others read books. Red and white Chinese characters on the garment of the prostitute at right read “flower” and “cherry blossoms,” age-old symbols of the ephemerality of beauty and youth. Two small red seals on the far right of the folding screen within the painting identify the artist as the early ukiyo-e master Hishikawa Moronobu.
Details
- Title
- Musical Party
- Artist Life
- c. 1618 - 1694
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.103
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 230
- Curator Approved
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