The Waitress Okita of Teahouse Naniwa

Data

The Waitress Okita of Teahouse Naniwa
Print   (Part of the set: Utamaro Famous Beauties)

Kitagawa Utamaro
Mainichi Newspaper
1980s

27.00 cm
40.70 cm

2016
00009-004
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

In this print, Utamaro depicts the famous Okita of the Naniwa teahouse in Asakusa serving a cup of tea. Ohisa was renowned for her beauty and is featured in many bijin-ga (美人画, images of beautiful women) of the period. 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 "While relaxing at a teahouse in Naniwacho, No one can fail to stop in here as they pass by the leggy weeds of Naniwa's straits whatever his reason for coming" (translation by the MET).

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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