Kitagawa UtamaroJapan, 1754–1806Kintoki en Yamauba
Kan ik het zien?
Onbekend
Waar is „Kintoki en Yamauba” nu? Collectie: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Onbekend.
Amsterdam, Nederland
De eigenaar is bekend; of het werk nu te zien is, is onbekend.
- Bron
- Het museum
Over het werk
Yamauba, zittend met ontbloot bovenlichaam, in kimono met patroon van chrysanten, een kaki schillend, terwijl Kintoki op haar rug zit.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- RP-P-1969-7
Wat het toont
In de catalogus
Bronnen
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- Afbeelding: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam — public domain
In het leven van Kitagawa Utamaro
Het hele leven1790–1801
Tightening censorship: seals on prints
From 1790 prints can be sold only with a censor's seal of approval; over the following decades censorship grows stricter, and violators can receive harsh punishments. From 1799 even preliminary drafts need approval, and in 1801 the works of a group of Utagawa-school offenders, including Toyokuni, are repressed.
1804
Arrest and fifty days in manacles
In 1804 Utamaro is imprisoned over prints of the sixteenth-century ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, depicted, in the authorities' view, “in an improper form”, and then manacled for fifty days, together with Tsukimaro, Toyokuni, Shuntei, Shun'ei and Jippensha Ikku; their publishers are heavily fined. It is probably the most famous case of censorship of the Edo period, and Utamaro appears to have been the most prominent of those punished.
1804
The prints of Hideyoshi that angered the authorities
The trigger was a wave of prints and books based on the “Ehon Taikōki”, an illustrated life of Hideyoshi (1797–1802): the authorities may have taken offence at historical figures being named and shown with their crests, which was prohibited, and at Hideyoshi being depicted with women of the pleasure quarters. Utamaro's censored prints include the daimyō Katō Kiyomasa lustily gazing at a Korean dancer, Hideyoshi holding the hand of his page Ishida Mitsunari in a sexually suggestive manner, and Hideyoshi with his five consorts viewing cherry blossoms at Daigo-ji temple.
1804–1806
Never recovering from the arrest
The arrest and imprisonment are held to have dealt Utamaro a severe psychological trauma: he could not recover from the shock, and the late period of his work is coloured by tragic tones. Soon after his release the artist died.
31 oktober 1806
Died
