Tsukasa and Other Courtesans of the Ogiya Watching the Autumn Moon Rise Over Rice Fields from a Balcony in the Yoshiwara

A group of seven women are on an outdoor balcony, looking out over a rice field. The women are wearing traditional Japanese clothing, including kimonos. They have their hair styled in an updo and adorned with decorative pieces. The women are standing or sitting on the floor. A black box sits on the floor to the left. A potted plant is on the right side. The background shows a rice field with a full moon in the sky. There are trees and bushes in the distance and a fence to the right. The walls have Japanese writing on them.

Artwork details

Dimensions:: 900 × 351 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

The Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Segawa Kikunojo III (left), Possibly as Misao Gozen, Matsuya Soshichi, and the Courtesan Kojoro of Hakata, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Insland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of te Seventh Month, 1785