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Seven women walking near a football court
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 (1726-1792)
1726-1792
- Medium
- Color and gold on silk panel
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 157.8 × 82.7 cm (62 1/8 × 32 9/16 in)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Kemari, a game in which players form a circle and kick a ball back and forth without letting it fall to the ground, was played at the Japanese imperial court as early as the seventh century. Played on a court about six meters (twenty feet) on each side with its corners marked by four trees, the sport was popular among the aristocracy and later was adopted by warriors and commoners. Kemari competitions continue today.
