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Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Tagasode of the Tamaya House
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn

Tagasode of the Tamaya House

Date1800-02
Label TextThe robe of this celebrated courtesan of the Tamaya house displays a starburst pattern made of tiny, white dotted resists known as kanoko shibori. This resist-dying technique was so labor-intensive and the robes so expensive that the method was banned under the Tokugawa shogunate's strict sumptuary laws. The pattern on Tagasode's robe is likely a stenciled reproduction of the fawn-dapple resist technique. --Catherine Roche, Curatorial Associate, 2010
Object number2017.23.13
Provenance[Egenolf Gallery, Burbank, California]; purchased from gallery by Allan Kollar, Seattle, Washington, 2004; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2017
Photo CreditPhoto: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints, Apr. 1 - July 4, 2010. Text by Catherine Roche. Cat. no. 29, reproduced p. 52. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Legends, Tales, Poetry: Visual Narrative in Japanese Art, Dec. 22, 2012 - July 21, 2013. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Talents and Beauties: Art of Women in Japan, Nov. 4, 2017 - Jul. 15, 2018. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Renegade Edo: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec, July 21 - Dec. 3, 2023. Text by Xiaojin Wu. No cat. no., pp. 78, 102, reproduced pl. 41.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Allan Kollar, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
DimensionsSheet: 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (39.4 x 26.7 cm)
MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper
The Courtesans Shizuka and Akashi of the Tamaya House (Tamaya uchi Shizuka, Akashi)
ca. 1799
Object number: 2017.23.10
Image Not Available for Shizuka of the Tamaya House, from the series A Complete Set of the Great Beauties of the Present Day
Shizuka of the Tamaya House, from the series A Complete Set of the Great Beauties of the Present Day
1794
Object number: 2017.23.4
Photo: Susan Cole
Segawa of the Matsubaya House
1800
Object number: 2014.32.3
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Sugawara of the Tsuruya House with Two Attendants, from the series Models for Fashion
ca. 1775
Object number: 2013.31.6
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Kisegawa of the Matsubaya House Holding a Fan
1800
Object number: 2014.32.2
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Yosooi of the Matsubaya House
1798 - 1800
Object number: 2014.32.5
Photo: William Wickett
South Wind, Clear Dawn (Gaifu kaisei), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.15
Image Not Available for Tago Beach near Eijiri on the Tokaido Highway, Simplified View (Tokaido Eijiri tago-no-ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Tago Beach near Eijiri on the Tokaido Highway, Simplified View (Tokaido Eijiri tago-no-ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-33
Object number: 2010.47.2
Image Not Available for Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.47.3
Image Not Available for The Poem of Sangi Hitoshi (Minamoto no Hitoshi), from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
The Poem of Sangi Hitoshi (Minamoto no Hitoshi), from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.4
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
The Poem of Ariwara no Narihira (Ariwara no Narihira Ason)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.5
Image Not Available for The Poem of Ono no Komachi, from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse
The Poem of Ono no Komachi, from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.6