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品名（中）	情书
品名（英）	The Love Letter
入馆年号	1920年，JP1210
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Torii Kiyonaga【1752 至 1815】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1767 - 公元 1799
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	高 26 5/16 英寸 (66.8 厘米); 宽 4 3/4 英寸 (12.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	浮世绘版画传统是活跃的流行文化的一部分，其艺术家经常对戏剧、诗歌以及其他艺术家的版画进行幽默的引用。在这里，Kiyonaga模仿了一幅版画，描绘了流行的歌舞伎戏剧《中新古拉》（Chushingura）的第七幕。该剧讲述了浪人如何为他们的领主之死复仇。在这一幕中，一个妓女，而不是浪人的首领，站在茶馆的阳台上读着一封信。主题大概是爱而不是复仇。另一个妓女藏在阳台下，就像剧中的间谍一样，一边读着展开的长信。在上面的阳台上，一位茶楼客户在镜子的帮助下阅读了这封信，这是对中新古罗无私的女人的讽刺，她把自己卖给了茶楼，以筹集丈夫加入浪人所需的资金 hashira-e或柱状打印的格式非常适合描绘这种垂直场景。Kiyonaga通过一些建筑暗示，将画面分为三个层次。我们的眼睛被顶部和底部的观察者向上和向下引导，他们专注于中心的"表演"。
介绍（英）	The ukiyo-e print tradition was part of a lively popular culture, and its artists often made humorous allusions to plays and poems as well as prints by other artists. Here Kiyonaga parodies a print depicting Act VII of the popular Kabuki play Chushingura, or "Loyal League of Forty-seven Ronin." The drama relates how the ronin avenged the death of their lord. In this scene a courtesan, instead of the leader of the ronin, stands on the veranda of a teahouse reading a letter. The subject is presumably love rather than revenge. Another courtesan, hidden beneath the veranda, like the spy in the play, reads the long letter as it unrolls. On the balcony above, a teahouse client reads the letter with the help of a mirror, a travesty of the selfless woman in Chushingura, who sold herself to the teahouse to raise the money her husband needed to join the ronin. The format of the hashira-e, or pillar print, is ideally suited to depict this vertical scene. "With a few hints of architecture, Kiyonaga has divided the picture plane into three levels. Our eyes are directed up and down the vertical expanse by the observers at the top and bottom, who focus on the "performance" at the center.