MAKE A MEME View Large Image Man with letter, woman with fan, dog beneath pool, a parody of Chishingura (5759416010).jpg en <b>Accession Number </b> 1957 117 <b>Display Artist </b> Kitagawa Utamaro <b>Display Title </b> Man with letter woman with fan dog beneath pool a ...
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Keywords: Man with letter, woman with fan, dog beneath pool, a parody of Chishingura (5759416010).jpg en <b>Accession Number </b> 1957 117 <b>Display Artist </b> Kitagawa Utamaro <b>Display Title </b> Man with letter woman with fan dog beneath pool a parody of Chishingura <b>Series Title </b> The Treasury of Loyal Retainers <b>Suite Name </b> Chushingura <b>Creation Date </b> 1798-1800 <b>Medium </b> Woodblock <b>Height </b> 14 15/16 in <b>Width </b> 10 1/16 in <b>Display Dimensions </b> 14 15/16 in x 10 1/16 in 37 94 cm x 25 56 cm <b>Publisher </b> Nishimuraya Yohachi <b>Credit Line </b> Bequest of Mrs Cora Timken Burnett <b>Label Copy </b> The artist of this print has designed his own clever and risqu parody of a climactic moment of the play The hero Yuranosuke has retreated to Kyotos red-light district in the hopes that his enemys spies will report his whereabouts and think he has given up on the vendetta While hiding in a brothel the hero receives a secret scroll from an ally detailing the names of the conspirators and their plans for an imminent attack As soon as he sees that the prostitute Okaru is looking on curiously he realizes that a spy could also be examining the vital plans The artist conveys this realization through a visual pun the spy is portrayed as a dog since the Japanese word inu can mean either spy or dog The smaller scene in the upper left shows the accurate actions of the play on which Utamaros parody was based <b>Collection </b> http //www sdmart org/art/our-collection/asian-art The San Diego Museum of Art 2005-04-05 13 02 52 https //www flickr com/photos/thesandiegomuseumofartcollection/5759416010/ Flickr en thesandiegomuseumofartcollection PD-old-100 Art of Japan in the San Diego Museum of Art
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