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Entertainment Scene
Miyagawa Chōshunc. 1710–53
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This painting captures the moment when a high-ranking courtesan accompanied by two trainees makes her grand entrance into a salon. The guest of honor, a samurai who reclines beneath a striped robe while dangling his fan, turns from the musical entertainment to gaze at the spectacle of her arrival. The fortunes of everyone in the room depend on how she orchestrates the rest of the evening, as the more the samurai spends on her services, the more trickles down to the other entertainers who are present.
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- Title: Entertainment Scene
- Creator: Miyagawa Chōshun (Japanese, 1683-1753)
- Date Created: c. 1710–53
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 56.4 x 135.5 cm (22 3/16 x 53 3/8 in.); Overall: 175 x 144.7 cm (68 7/8 x 56 15/16 in.); with knobs: 175 x 154.9 cm (68 7/8 x 61 in.)
- Provenance: (Kenzaburo Marui, Osaka, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.17
- Medium: hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
- Original Title: 遊宴図
- Inscriptions: artist's signature and seal lower left
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
- Accession Number: 1985.17
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