Palindromic Poems (Kaibunka): Kyo

Triptych print depicts three women in traditional Japanese kimonos standing in a room. The women are standing side by side, each on a yellow tatami floor with their bodies angled slightly to their right. The woman on the left wears a green kimono with red and white designs and holds a fan in her right hand. The middle woman wears a kimono with salmon and green designs and holds a closed parasol in her left hand. The woman on the right wears a kimono with dark red and peach designs, and her hands are tucked into her sleeves. A small table with items on it and a red cushion are on the floor to the right. The background includes a wall with a wavy line and Japanese writing at the top, and a landscape scene below. The women's hairstyles are styled with buns and adorned with hairpins. The room's floor has dark brown lines. The print is likely a kaibunka, a type of Japanese art. The title of the work is "Palindromic Poems (Kaibunka): Kyo". The artist's name is Suzuki Harunobu.

Artwork details

Date:: ca. 1768
Medium:: Right-hand sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Culture:: Japan
Dimensions:: 599 × 451 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