CONTEST OF BEAUTIES: CASTING A CURSE AT THE HOUR OF THE OX (Keisai Eisen)

Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: shunga 春画 erotic art

Artist: Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉 (1790-1848)
From the book: Picture Book, Contest of Beauties 艶本美女競, vol. 1 上
Print subject: casting a curse at the hour of the ox

Note: the woman performing the curse (poss. Momoyo 桃代 in the company of Iwai Shitomi 岩井蔀) is portrayed as dressed in white, with disheveled hair, a crown of three burning candles and with, behind her back, a mirror to hang from her neck on her chest and the hammer and nails for the ushi no koku mairi 丑の刻参り ritual

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Year: ca. 1822
Condition: fair, some stains, trimmed margins
Dimensions: 26,5 x 18,5 cm

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