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Lot Essay
published:
Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art, introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art; Osaka: Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 36.
Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), nos. 25--27.
Matsukaze (Wind in the Pines) and her sister Murasame (Autumn Rain) are fisher girls carrying pails of brine along the beach at Suma (in modern Kobe) with Ariwara no Yukihira, a ninth-century poet and scholar, who was their lover during his exile to Suma. Their tale inspired one of the most popular noh plays, Matsukaze, as well as a kabuki dance play Shiokomi. Matsukaze is often shown wearing Yukihira's hat and robe, keepsakes he left behind for her (see lots 91 and 100). Both women are ghosts, and at the end of the play they dissolve back into nature as wind and rain, the meaning of their names.
Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art, introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art; Osaka: Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 36.
Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), nos. 25--27.
Matsukaze (Wind in the Pines) and her sister Murasame (Autumn Rain) are fisher girls carrying pails of brine along the beach at Suma (in modern Kobe) with Ariwara no Yukihira, a ninth-century poet and scholar, who was their lover during his exile to Suma. Their tale inspired one of the most popular noh plays, Matsukaze, as well as a kabuki dance play Shiokomi. Matsukaze is often shown wearing Yukihira's hat and robe, keepsakes he left behind for her (see lots 91 and 100). Both women are ghosts, and at the end of the play they dissolve back into nature as wind and rain, the meaning of their names.