Hinodeya goke Kōmei Bijin Rokkasen














the subject of print not clear. may hinodeya goke (日の出屋後家, hinodeya widow ), asahiya goke (朝日屋後家, asahiya widow ), or karasumori goke (朝日屋後家 karasumori widow ). 1 of popular beauties in edo @ time of publication.


utamaro depicts widow drying right ear cloth after having had bath. @ time, image of woman shaven eyebrows after bath considered particularly erotic. variations of eprint exist: widow has eyebrows in copy @ museum of fine arts, boston, in copy @ tokyo national museum eyebrows missing—shaving off eyebrows sign of married woman during edo period. suggested explanations include reprints appeared when widow shaved or regrew eyebrows, such explanation complicated fact print of geisha takashimaya o-hisa has variants , without eyebrows.


utamaro symbolizes name of model image in rebus in top left. rising sun may refer either hinodeya or asahiya (both asahi , hinode meaning rising sun ), or crows flying out of forst may refer karasumori shrine (ja) (鳥森 karasumori, crow forest ). go board , lock of hair (ke) combine make go-ke, homophonous goke widow . fūryū rokkasen version matches widow poet fun ya no yasuhide.









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