1984.202.36 Goyu: Waitresses Soliciting Travelers

In this scene, waitresses from the inn at right are physically dragging customers from the road. Women were readily available at each station to serve, entertain, or otherwise accommodate the needs of weary travelers. Prostitutes around Yoshida, Goyu, and Akasaka were especially well-known. 

The diminishing treatment of receding forms in this print shows the influence of European engravings, which had infiltrated Japan through the Dutch trading post at Nagasaki. The European technique of linear perspective intrigued several ukiyoe artists, who had traditionally used isometric perspective, in which receding parallels remain parallel on the picture plane.

Anna McFarland, Ichiryusai Hiroshige: The Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido, Label text, 1986.

1984.202.1-55

By at least 1908-1937: Frank Lloyd Wright [1]

1937-1984: Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus, Dallas [2]

1984: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus [3]

[1] The collection was exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1908. See "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Japanese Print" in Collections Records object file.

[2] See "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Japanese Print" in Collections Records object file.

[3] See copy of Deed of Gift, dated 28 December 1984, in Collections Records object file.

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