Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)

Courtesan as Botanka Shohaku

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Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)
Courtesan as Botanka Shohaku
Signed Utagawa Toyokuni ga, sealed Ichiyosai and Toyokuni
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
35½ x 15 3/8in. (90.2 x 39cm.)

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Botanka Shohaku (1443-1527) was a renga (linked verse) poet who studied Zen under Ikkyu Sojun (d. 1481) and was famous as a free spirit. Shohaku usually rode an ox for transportation. "Botan" means peony.

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