page_title: Zashiki Hakkei
section_title: Kyōdai no shūgetsu
hierarchical_section_title: Zashiki Hakkei / Description and analysis / Kyōdai no shūgetsu
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context_page_description: Zashiki Hakkei is a series of eight prints from 1766 by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Suzuki Harunobu. They were the first full-colour nishiki-e prints and are considered representative examples of Harunobu's work. The prints are mitate-e parodies of popular themes of the 11th-century Chinese landscape painting series, Eight Views of Xiaoxiang; Harunobu replaces natural scenery with domestic scenes.
  Harunobu made an erotic shunga version of the series in c. 1768–70 called Fūryū Zashiki Hakkei, each accompanied with a poem. He appropriated images and poetry for them from works by earlier artists, particularly those of the artist Nishikawa Sukenobu and the poet Fukuo Kichijirō.
  The Zashiki Hakkei theme became popular with artists such as Torii Kiyonaga, who produced two series based on Harunobu's Zashiki Hakkei in the late 1770s, and Isoda Koryūsai, who produced a Zashiki Hakkei series of his own.
context_section_description: Kyōdai no shūgetsu (鏡台の秋月, "Harvest moon of the mirror stand") parodies Harvest Moon over Dongting Lake (洞庭秋月 Dōtei shūgetsu).  The print depicts a hairdresser doing up the hair of a young girl in a long-sleeved kimono with a pattern of plovers flying over waves, which perhaps alludes to the surface of Dongting Lake.  The flowering Japanese pampas grass indicates an autumn scene, and the round mirror before them alludes to the autumnal harvest moon.  With the young woman's face reflecting in the mirror, Haruo Shirane sees further allusion to Ōmi Hakkei's Ishiyama Shūgetsu, which traditionally has the harvest moon at Ishiyama Temple reflect off Lake Biwa.
  In the Fūryū Zashiki Hakkei version a husband, smoking a pipe, embraces his half-naked wife from behind, pulls at her kimono, and fondles her genitals as she applies makeup.  Her eyebrows are unshaved, which indicates she is newly wed and has not yet had a child.  An amulet for a paper charm dangles from her neck.  The mirror before her alludes to the moon in The Moon in Autumn on Dongting Lake.  A nadeshiko fringed pink grows in a potter on the veranda, which suggests the word nadeshiko, meaning "a child who is caressed", but used to mean "the woman I love" in ancient waka poetry.  The nadeshiko fringed pink was also a traditional symbol of a beautiful, desirable woman.  To Hayakawa, the woman's body partly covered by the kimono is an allusion to the accompanying poem's "mid-autumn full moon ... hidden in the clouds".  The word utena puns on the homophones for pedastal and the calyx of a flower, a traditional metaphor for the female genitals; thus the moon climbing the utena can be read as the man mounting the woman.  To Shirane, the opening and closing "Moon of an autumn evening" in the poem creates a "mirror effect" appropriate to the image of the mirror.
caption: Nadeshiko fringed pink [ja]—in Japanese kara-nadeshiko
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