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Foot-Soldier with a Spear and Hawk-Handler (Yari-mochi yakko to taka shō), from the series Souvenir Paintings from Ōtsu, Stocked in Edo (Edo Shi-ire Ōtsu Miyage)

ca. 1802–3
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 229
The wakashu (adolescent genderfluid youth) here, depicted with his falcon, is elegantly dressed in a haori jacket and hakama pants with a long sword at his side. The young man is accompanied by the exaggerated and comical figure of a spear bearer, a symbol of safety on a journey and a subject that remained popular as one of the ten standard Ōtsu-e themes.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 喜多川歌麿画　「江戸仕入大津土産」　槍持奴・鷹匠
  • Title: Foot-Soldier with a Spear and Hawk-Handler (Yari-mochi yakko to taka shō), from the series Souvenir Paintings from Ōtsu, Stocked in Edo (Edo Shi-ire Ōtsu Miyage)
  • Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, ca. 1754–1806)
  • Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
  • Date: ca. 1802–3
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
  • Dimensions: H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm); W. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914
  • Object Number: JP991
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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