Beauty and Rooster

Data

Beauty and Rooster
Print   (Part of the set: Taisho era subscription prints)

Okumura Masanobu

1910s

00024-021
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

The woman clearly appears to have just come out of her bath and encountered two chickens.

The artist, Okumura Masanobu (1686–1764), was not only an ukiyo-e artist but also a publisher and poet.

The poem, presumably created by the same artist, is read as Ase ni naru Tori ni Rinki no Fūfu-zure (汗になる 鳥に悋気の夫婦徒), which can be paraphrased as, "I perspire from jealousy upon seeing the chicken couple."

The original print was a benizuri-e, but this reproduction is made as a Nishiki-e using multiple color blocks.

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