Miyagawa Chosun
(Japanese, 1683–1753)
Girl Viewing Peach Blossoms (Also “Courtesan on a Veranda”)
Object Details
Artist
Miyagawa Chosun
Date
Edo Period (1603-1867)
Medium
Hanging scroll: ink and colors on silk
Dimensions
37 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (95.3 x 38.7 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Louis Livingston Seaman, Class of 1872, by exchange
Object
Number
65.400
A common theme of ukiyo-e, literally “pictures of the floating world” that present the world of plea(…)
A common theme of ukiyo-e, literally “pictures of the floating world” that present the world of pleasure and luxury in the urban centers of Tokugawa period Japan, is that of a fashionable young woman on a garden verandah. The type was a hallmark of Miyagawa Chosun, one of the founders of this genre of painting during the first half of the eighteenth century. While many ukiyo-e painters were also designers of woodblock prints and illustrated books, Chosun seems to have confined his artistic output to paintings.
