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The First Procession of Courtesans, from the Album Colours of the Triple Dawn
Also titled De eerste optocht van courtisanes, uit het album De kleuren van de drie ochtenden
Torii Kiyonaga (Edo (historische plaatsnaam), 1752–1815)
1787
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- album
- Dimensions
- height 150 mm x width 230 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Goslings NieuwBeerta Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This album features New Year’s rituals, such as courtesans parading in their most beautiful garments on the first day of the year. Two girls are each holding a paddle. This is used for battledore and shuttlecock, a kind of badminton, which children only played on New Year’s Day. Passing the shuttlecock without letting it touch the ground is thought to bring good fortune for the New Year.
