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Battledore and Shuttlecock
Tsukioka Settei (Japanese, 1710-1786)
c.1769–1772
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink, colors, and gold on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 124.4 x 50.1 cm Height: mount 81 1/2" Height, ptg. 49" Width: mount 24 5/8" Width. ptg. 19 3/4"
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This painting depicts a New Year’s party in which five girls play a game of battledore and shuttlecock (similar to badminton, but with paddles instead of racquets). They stand before an open doorway trimmed on either side with kadomatsu (pine of the doorway), which is traditionally used at the New Year. Above the door is another seasonal decoration made up of fern leaves, smaller yuzuri (evergreen) leaves, a lobster, and a peach, all emblematic of long life and good fortune.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
