Yoshiwara Courtesans: A New Mirror Comparing the Calligraphy of Beauties (Yoshiwara keisei: Shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami) 1784, first month Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden) Japanese Courtesans were alluring not only for their great beauty but also for their artistic and social accomplishments. To be received into their company took aplomb as well as discreet but lavish expenditure. This book chronicles some of the leading women of the day, pairing their portraits with reproductions of each woman's calligraphy. Hinazuru, on the right, has selected a poem by the tenth-century poet Fujiwara Sanesada for her presentation:I turn to look for the summer warbler singing but there is nothing but the moon left at dawn.Her colleague, Chozan, uses a classic anonymous poem from the ninth-century Imperial Kokinshu Anthology:The flying geese leave the spring mists behind withouta glanceperhaps they are simply used to living in a villagewithout flowers.. Yoshiwara Courtesans: A New Mirror Comparing t

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Yoshiwara Courtesans: A New Mirror Comparing the Calligraphy of Beauties (Yoshiwara keisei: Shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami) 1784, first month Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden) Japanese Courtesans were alluring not only for their great beauty but also for their artistic and social accomplishments. To be received into their company took aplomb as well as discreet but lavish expenditure. This book chronicles some of the leading women of the day, pairing their portraits with reproductions of each woman's calligraphy. Hinazuru, on the right, has selected a poem by the tenth-century poet Fujiwara Sanesada for her presentation:I turn to look for the summer warbler singing but there is nothing but the moon left at dawn.Her colleague, Chozan, uses a classic anonymous poem from the ninth-century Imperial Kokinshu Anthology:The flying geese leave the spring mists behind withouta glanceperhaps they are simply used to living in a villagewithout flowers.. Yoshiwara Courtesans: A New Mirror Comparing t

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