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| Keywords: Couple spying on a courtesan reading a love letter, from Chushingura (5758877659).jpg en <b>Accession Number </b> 1957 93 <b>Display Artist </b> Torii Kiyonaga <b>Display Title </b> Couple spying on a courtesan reading a love letter from Chushingura <b>Creation Date </b> 1779 <b>Medium </b> Woodblock <b>Height </b> 28 1/4 in <b>Width </b> 4 7/8 in <b>Display Dimensions </b> 28 1/4 in x 4 7/8 in 71 76 cm x 12 38 cm <b>Credit Line </b> Bequest of Mrs Cora Timken Burnett <b>Label Copy </b> Here the artist makes ingenious use of the long vertical format of this pillar print hashira-e which was made for hanging on pillars of domestic spaces Kiyonaga parodies the scene in Act VII of the play in which a spy and the prostitute Okaru read the contents of a samurai retainers secret scroll A prostitute stands in for the samurai in the center of the composition; a male customer takes the place of the prostitute Okaru and instead of a male enemy spy under the veranda there is a servant girl This scene from the play was so well-known by the people of Edo at the end of the eighteenth century that everyone would have understood the humorous implications of these substitutions <b>Collection </b> http //www sdmart org/art/our-collection/asian-art The San Diego Museum of Art 2007-05-09 16 20 57 https //www flickr com/photos/thesandiegomuseumofartcollection/5758877659/ Flickr en thesandiegomuseumofartcollection PD-old-100 Art of Japan in the San Diego Museum of Art | ||||
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