Artworks

Inrō with silhouettes of teahouse entertainments

Artwork · Koma Kyūhaku · 1820s · inrō · Victoria and Albert Museum

An inrō by Koma Kyūhaku in togidashie lacquer: shadows of drunken merriment at a teahouse party fall on the paper of a shōji — a courtesan playing the samisen, a customer dancing. Julia Hutt has traced the design to a woodblock triptych of 1820 by Kikugawa Eizan. The ojime bead is carved with the face of Daruma. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 301–302, fig. 347. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.