Английская Википедия:Hari-shigoto
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Hari-shigoto (Шаблон:Lang, "Needlework", Шаблон:Circa) is a colour triptych print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro (Шаблон:Circa – 1806). It depicts women working with cloth at home with children playing around them. Critics hold the prints in high regard, in particular the skill required to reproduce the translucent effect of the cloth with woodblock prints.
Background
Ukiyo-e art flourished in Japan during the Edo period from the 17th to 19th centuries, and took as its primary subjects courtesans, kabuki actors, and others associated with the "floating world" lifestyle of the pleasure districts. Alongside paintings, mass-produced woodblock prints were a major form of the genre.Шаблон:Sfn In the mid-18th century full-colour Шаблон:Transl prints became common, printed using a large number of woodblocks, one for each colour.Шаблон:Sfn A prominent genre was Шаблон:Transl ("pictures of beauties"), which depicted most often courtesans and geisha at leisure, and promoted the entertainments of the pleasure districts.Шаблон:Sfn
Kitagawa Utamaro (Шаблон:Circa–1806) made his name in the 1790s with his bijin ōkubi-e ("large-headed pictures of beautiful women") portraits, focusing on the head and upper torso, a style others had previously employed in portraits of kabuki actors.Шаблон:Sfn Utamaro experimented with line, colour, and printing techniques to bring out subtle differences in the features, expressions, and backdrops of subjects from a wide variety of class and background.Шаблон:Sfn
Utamaro's individuated beauties were in contrast to the stereotyped, idealized images that had been the norm.Шаблон:Sfn He set many prints in scenes of daily lifeШаблон:Sfn and depicted a wider variety of women in a greater range of situations than was usual in ukiyo-e, often including scenes of mothers with their children.Шаблон:Sfn
Publication
The set of three multicolour nishiki-e prints forms a triptych and was published in Шаблон:Circa by Шаблон:Illm. Each sheet is ōban size, measuring about Шаблон:ConvertШаблон:EfnШаблон:Sfn and bears Uemura's mark (Шаблон:Lang) and the seal Utamaru hitsu (Шаблон:Lang, "the brush of Utamaro").Шаблон:Sfn
About the same time, Uemura published an untitled ōban-sized five-print series by Utamaro with the same yellowish backgrounds depicting woman in domestic situations. Like the Hari-shigoto triptych, the woman appear full-length and subtly bare their legs in semierotic postures. It is assumed the series is somehow related to Harishigoto.Шаблон:Sfn
Description
Set against a blank, yellowish background, the picture displays a scene of women doing with children playing around them,Шаблон:Sfn one in each print. Utamaro is known for the eroticism of his work which he displays subtly even in this middle-class domestic scene via exposed legs and breastsШаблон:Sfn and suggestive poses.Шаблон:Sfn
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In the centre sits an older woman with shaved eyebrows, indicating she is married.Шаблон:Sfn She holds one end of a red obi sashШаблон:Sfn decorated with a hemp-leaf pattern; a young woman in the right print holds the other end.Шаблон:Sfn They fold it as they take measurements.Шаблон:Sfn In front of the women in the right print a young boyШаблон:Sfn shows a cat its reflection in a hand mirrorШаблон:Sfn and laughs; the threatened cat's hair stands on end. An adolescent girlШаблон:Sfn in the back of the middle print gazes in an insect cage,Шаблон:Sfn possibly at a firefly or cricket.Шаблон:Sfn
In the left print an aproned child climbs onto the lap of another young woman,Шаблон:Sfn playing with a round hand fan.Шаблон:Sfn The child crawls at the woman's groin and spreads her legs.Шаблон:Sfn The woman holds up a deep blue,Шаблон:Sfn dot-patterned, translucent, silk gauze before her face.Шаблон:Sfn The skill required to reproduce the translucent effect of the cloth via woodblock printing has gained the prints a particularly high critical regard.Шаблон:Sfn
Known copies
Copies of the set reside in the collections of the Tokyo National Museum, the Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation in Yokohama, Mizuta Art Museum in Saitama Prefecture, the Japan Ukiyo-e Museum in Nagano Prefecture, the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin, the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, the New York Public Library, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. The British Museum has two sets, and the Galerie Berès has a copy of the left sheet.Шаблон:Sfn
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