Courtesan of Eguchi painting:177080; inscription: 1820s-1830s Katsukawa Shunsh The Ukiyo-e artist Katuskawa Shunsh, most famous for his woodblock print designs of actors and sumo wrestlers, created this deluxe painting on the theme of the courtesan of Eguchi, a twelfth-century prostitute named Tae who lived in the Eguchi licensed quarters, located near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka. According to legend recounted in The Tale of Monk Saigy (Saigy monogatari, ca. 1480), one rainy night the itinerant monk-poet Saigy (11181190), while on his way to temple in Osaka, stopped at her brothel seeking shelter. She at first refused him entry because he was a monk, but Saigy protested and told her that a person who has not renounced the world should not presume to deny lodging to one who has. The courtesan relented and let the monk in. By the eighteenth century it had become common to create parodic versions of Tae as an incarnation of Fugen (Sanskrit: Samanthabhadra), one of th

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Courtesan of Eguchi painting:177080; inscription: 1820s-1830s Katsukawa Shunsh The Ukiyo-e artist Katuskawa Shunsh, most famous for his woodblock print designs of actors and sumo wrestlers, created this deluxe painting on the theme of the courtesan of Eguchi, a twelfth-century prostitute named Tae who lived in the Eguchi licensed quarters, located near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka. According to legend recounted in The Tale of Monk Saigy (Saigy monogatari, ca. 1480), one rainy night the itinerant monk-poet Saigy (11181190), while on his way to temple in Osaka, stopped at her brothel seeking shelter. She at first refused him entry because he was a monk, but Saigy protested and told her that a person who has not renounced the world should not presume to deny lodging to one who has. The courtesan relented and let the monk in. By the eighteenth century it had become common to create parodic versions of Tae as an incarnation of Fugen (Sanskrit: Samanthabhadra), one of th

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