Gompachi Komurasaki no Toko no Tsuki|逢身八契　権八小紫の床の通気|Shared Feelings in the Bedchamber of Komurasaki and Gompachi

Kitagawa Utamaro

ca. 1795 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

This series involves an elaborate pun on the traditional Eight Views of Omi painting theme. Omi is both a place name and the phonetic reading of the characters for "lovers' meetings." In these prints, lovers made famous in joruri puppet plays and in the Kabuki theater are matched with sentiments created out of word play on each of the conventional titles of the eight scenes. This print corresponds to the "Autumn Moon at Ishiyama" scene, punning "moon" (or "tsuki") with "shared feelings" (also "tsuki").

Artist

Kitagawa Utamaro

Date

ca. 1795

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1922