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English: Accession Number: 1957.93

Display Artist: Torii Kiyonaga Display Title: "Couple spying on a courtesan reading a love letter, from Chushingura" Creation Date: 1779 Medium: Woodblock Height: 28 1/4 in. Width: 4 7/8 in. Display Dimensions: 28 1/4 in. x 4 7/8 in. (71.76 cm x 12.38 cm) Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Cora Timken Burnett Label Copy: "Here the artist makes ingenious use of the long vertical format of this pillar print (hashira-e), which was made for hanging on pillars of domestic spaces. Kiyonaga parodies the scene in Act VII of the play in which a spy and the prostitute Okaru read the contents of a samurai retainers secret scroll. A prostitute stands in for the samurai in the center of the composition; a male customer takes the place of the prostitute Okaru, and instead of a male enemy spy under the veranda, there is a servant girl. This scene from the play was so well-known by the people of Edo at the end of the eighteenth century that everyone would have understood the humorous implications of these substitutions. "

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