The Beauty Ohisa from Takashimaya

Data

The Beauty Ohisa from Takashimaya
Print   (Part of the set: Utamaro Famous Beauties)

Kitagawa Utamaro
Mainichi Newspaper
1980s

26.90 cm
40.60 cm

2016
00009-002
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

In this print, Utamaro depicts the famous Ohisa of the Takashima teahouse. Ohisa was the daughter of Takashima Chobei, the owner of several tea houses and cake stores in Edo (Tokyo). She was renowned for her beauty and is featured in many bijin-ga (美人画, images of beautiful women) of the period. She wears a thin black kimono together with a pink under-kimono in this print, and her neck is slightly exposed. Her obi (帯, sash) features a delicate pattern of birds and what seem to be waves.

The poem on the upper left side of the print is presented as a tanzaku (短冊), a thin strip of coloured paper on which a poem is written, and reads "Charms and tea are brimming over And neither gets cold! Let me not wake From this lucky dream of the New Year At Takashimaya" (translation by the British Museum).

Please refer back to the description of this set as a whole to find more information on other aspects of this print.

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