Beauty Looking at Her Image in a Mirror
Utagawa Sadakage Japanese
Not on view
Sadakage, a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada, worked first in Edo and later in Osaka. He specialized in the theme of graceful women. Here, a woman is readjusting her coiffure after meeting a customer.
The suggestive spring poem by Rōgatsuan Baiei in the long, rectangular label at the left is entitled "Mokuboji," after a temple whose grounds are famous both for the grave of the abducted child Umewakamaru from the Noh play Sumidagawa and for their cherry blossoms and willow trees.
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