Japanese Print "The Handsome Kemari Player" by Torii Kiyonaga
Artist:Torii Kiyonaga
Title:The Handsome Kemari Player
Date:1782
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Source:Worcester Art Museum
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In a reversal of the usual theme of male voyeurism, a woman catches a glimpse of a young dandy and his exposed legs as he plays kemari outside a tall, encircling fence. Kemari is a non-competitive Japanese form of kickball which was traditionally played at the imperial court. It involved about four to eight young noblemen taking turns, and helping each other, to keep a light-weight ball (mari), made of two pieces of deer-hide, high in the air as long as possible. This print was immediately understood by connoisseurs as a humorous, contemporary parody (mitate) of an episode in chapter thi
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