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Hishikawa MoronobuOkumura Masanobu
Suzuki Harunobu
Katsukawa Shunshō
Tsutaya Jūzaburō
Hokusai and His Circle
The Nineteenth Century
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![Eguchi [The Courtesan of Eguchi as the Bodhisattva Fugen from the Noh play Eguchi], from A Series of Noh Plays for the Hanazono Club (Hanazono yōkyoku bantsuzuki)](handcrop/ASL_2008.01.32.02.jpg "Eguchi [The Courtesan of Eguchi as the Bodhisattva Fugen from the Noh play Eguchi], from A Series of Noh Plays for the Hanazono Club (Hanazono yōkyoku bantsuzuki)")
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![Eguchi [The Courtesan of Eguchi as the Bodhisattva Fugen from the Noh play Eguchi], from A Series of Noh Plays for the Hanazono Club (Hanazono yōkyoku bantsuzuki)](images/ASL_2008.01.32.02.jpg "Eguchi [The Courtesan of Eguchi as the Bodhisattva Fugen from the Noh play Eguchi], from A Series of Noh Plays for the Hanazono Club (Hanazono yōkyoku bantsuzuki)")
Eguchi [The Courtesan of Eguchi as the Bodhisattva Fugen from the Noh play Eguchi], from A Series of Noh Plays for the Hanazono Club (Hanazono yōkyoku bantsuzuki)
ca. 1823
Color woodcut, surimono with silver powder and embossing
20.9 x 18.4 cm
Collection of Joanna H. Schoff
This New Year’s print was commissioned by a group of poets who called themselves the “Flower Garden” Circle. The three poems on this print make light-hearted allusions to the Noh play Eguchi: in the first two by parodying the theme of the “temporary lodgings” Eguchi provides; in the third by alluding to the transformation of the Buddhist deity into a beautiful courtesan.
Photo: Richard Goodbody