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Source Description
Offering him a camellia--a symbol of perseverance--Somenoi (left) says good-bye to her husband, the hero Iori, when she is about to depart in order to enter a brothel. By so doing she will raise the money needed to retrieve a lost painting, one that had been entrusted to Iori and his brother by the lord whom they served.
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Document identity
localId
30728
label
Chuko buyuden
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obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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30728
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object
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normalized
title
Chuko buyuden
description
Offering him a camellia--a symbol of perseverance--Somenoi (left) says good-bye to her husband, the hero Iori, when she is about to depart in order to enter a brothel. By so doing she will raise the money needed to retrieve a lost painting, one that had been entrusted to Iori and his brother by the lord whom they served.
provenance
Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.
date
ca. 1850 (late Edo)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
color woodcuts
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1
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1
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import
Source extras
cul
Japanese
style
Osaka School
inscriptions
[Signature] Hirosada
RelatedObjects
7073
med
color pigments and ink on mulberry paper
creator_ids
6406
collection_ids
JPK
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none
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1
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0
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photo
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