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Utagawa Kunisada
Woman Gathering Ferns, 1830er Jahre
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In keeping with a spring ritual, a geisha gathers bracken in order to prepare it for cooking at home. It would have been deep fried as tempura. The three poets Tokotei Hidemaru, Tosentei Yoshinari and Wachikutei Sunao likewise address this theme in their printed poems.
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Thomsen, Hans Bjarne; Schien, Stefanie; Stockhausen, Tilmann von; Grosse, Ernst: Japanische Holzschnitte. aus der Sammlung Ernst Grosse = Japanese woodblock prints : from the Ernst Grosse collection. Freiburg 2018, S. 208 Seiten.