PERMISSIVE TONES: THE LOVESICK HEART (Kitao Shigemasa)

Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: abuna-e あぶな絵 dangerous pictures

Artist: Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政 (1739-1820)
From the book: Picture Book, Permissive Tones 艶本免の音色, vol. 3 下

Top inscription: Filled with emotion, my heart a storm of discontent, I gave myself up to sleep, but the flood of my tears was too great to hold back. Now my pillow alone knows the secret of my lovesick heart. おもひあまりせきかねてうらみぬるよのなみだはとこすさまじやひとりたゞまくらにこいぞしらるゝ (from the song cycle Beyond the Clouds 雲の上, translation by Tsuge Gen’ichi 柘植元一)

Publisher: Daikodo 大好堂

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: sumizuri-e 墨摺絵 monochromatic woodblock printing

Year: ca. 1779
Condition: reasonable, significant paper thinnings, trimmed margins
Dimensions: 26,5 x 17,5 cm

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