Japanischer Druck "Teahouse Waitress" von Torii Kiyonaga
Künstler:Torii Kiyonaga
Titel:Teahouse Waitress
Datum:about 1784–1788
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Quelle:Worcester Art Museum
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Beschreibung:
Standing figure of a tall woman who holds a small black tea-cut stand, and turns to look behing her toward the left. She wears a pink obi and a blue skirt that has at the bottom a pattern of stalks of tokusa (the flowering rush) in white. Kiyonaga, the last great pillar-print artist, designed more than one hundred and twenty-five pillar prints. Most of them are full-length representations of stately, mature women. This print presents a teahouse waitress wearing a kimono with a pointed ivy-leaf (tsuta) pattern and an apron decorated with a scouring rush (tokusa). Her hair is secured with a few hairpins (kanzashi). The waitress turns to see whether her customer has everything he needs: she has brought him a tea-cup on the small cup-tray that she holds in her hand and a tobacco box placed on the tatami-covered dais. The lower part of a paper-
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