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Kawahara Keiga. Kitchen at the Bridegroom’s House. Series “the Life of the Japanese”. 1820-s
Kawahara Keiga. Kitchen at the Bridegroom’s House. Series “the Life of the Japanese”. 1820-s
Number
МАЭ № 13-34/14
Title
Kitchen at the Bridegroom’s House. Series “the Life of the Japanese”.
Ethnicity
Japanese
Date
1820-s
Author
Kawahara Keiga
Collectors-person
Material
silk textile, Japanese watercolours, ink, Japanese washigami paper, glue
Dimensions
32.5 × 43.7
Annotation
List portrays a kitchen at the house of the bridegroom, where food for the wedding ceremony is being prepared. Through the small window on the left we can see a menu (suimono, "water things," are things to drink, suimono "slurping things" are soups drunk from bowls). The spiny lobsters and sea bream tails are symbols of success and celebration (in a bit of word play, the sea bream’s Japanese name tai alludes to the word medetai "congratulations." A kamado cooking stove can be seen inside the kitchen-house interior.
Corpus
Ethnographic drawing
Kawahara Keiga. Kitchen at the Bridegroom’s House. Series “the Life of the Japanese”. 1820-s
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