Japanese Print "Ogino Sawanojo as the Shiokumi Matsukaze" by Torii Kiyonobu I

Artist:Torii Kiyonobu I

Title:Ogino Sawanojo as the Shiokumi Matsukaze

Date:about 1700

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Source:Worcester Art Museum
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A design in the early Torii style. Ogino Sawanojo as the shiokumi woman (carrier of seawater to kettles for making salt) Matsukaze, shown seated on the bent-over trunk of the pine tree on Suma Beach, upon which her faithless lover, the noble lord Ariwara no Yukihira, hung his haori (coat) and eboshi (hat) as pledges that he would come back to her (which he never did). He had been recalled to the court at Kyoto from which he had been temporarily banished. Link (Link, Primitive Ukiyo-e, p.279) suggests that the actor may be Hayakawa Hasse. [further research needed]

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