Japanese Print "Right-Hand Sheet of a Set of Three: The Courtesan Ohatsu of the House called Tenma-ya" by Nishimura Shigenaga
Artist:Nishimura Shigenaga
Title:Right-Hand Sheet of a Set of Three: The Courtesan Ohatsu of the House called Tenma-ya
Date:about 1730
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Source:Worcester Art Museum
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Shigenaga was one of the first artists to produce triptychs. It was fashionable to depict the beauties of the four or three seasons or associated with the three great urban centers, Edo, Kyoto and Naniwa (Osaka).The courtesan Ohatsu of the Tenma-ya, an establishment in the Kitanoshinchi district of Osaka is shown standing beside an engawa with an uguisu (bush warbler) in a cage on the ground beside her. Ohatsu was the ill-fated kabuki heroine of the tragedy "Love Suicide at Sonezaki." When she and her lover Tokubei, a clerk at an oil shop, discovered that he had been secretly bethrothed to his employer's niece and that he was about to be married and sent to Edo to cure him of his passion for Ohatsu, the two eloped and then committed suicide in the precincts of the Tenjin Shrine in Osaka. Ohatsu's kimono is deco
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