Yamauba and Kintarō

Artwork · Nagasawa Rosetsu · 1797 · ema · Itsukushima Shrine

A votive painting (ema) dedicated in 1797 at the Itsukushima Shrine by Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754–1799), Ōkyo’s troublesome pupil: the mountain woman as an old, ugly court lady in tattered garments once gorgeous, the child more monkey than infant — a cynical view of the reality behind tender maternal care. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 322–323, fig. 374. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.