Otachinoki (Evacuation), from the series Chiyoda no Ōoku (Chiyoda Inner Palace)
Hashimoto Chikanobu, Otachinoki (Evacuation), from the series Chiyoda no Ōoku (Chiyoda Inner Palace), 1896, color woodblock print on paper; triptych, Bequest of James Sumner Douglass, public domain, 2006.93.32a-c
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- Title
Otachinoki (Evacuation), from the series Chiyoda no Ōoku (Chiyoda Inner Palace)
- Related Titles
original language: おたち退
series (original language): 千代田之大奥
series (translated): Chiyoda Inner Palace
series (translated); variant: The Inner Precincts of Chiyoda
series (transliterated): Chiyoda no Ōoku
translated: Evacuation
transliterated: Otachinoki
- Artist
- Related People
publisher: Fukuda Kumajirō (Japanese, active Tokyo 1874-10th month 1898)
- Date
1896
- Period
Japan: Meiji period (1868-1912)
- Medium
color woodblock print on paper; triptych
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
overall sheet: 13 1/4 in x 27 3/4 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
artist's seal: 年 [stylized], printed in red relief within circular cartouche, lower right; right sheet Transliteration: toshi Language: Japanese Description: Circular red toshidama seal commonly used by artists of the Utagawa school.
carver's mark: 二卋彫栄, printed in black relief within rectangular cartouche, bottom left; left sheet Transliteration (Translation): Nisei Hori Ei (second generation Hori Ei) Language: Japanese Description: Seal of carver Watanabe Tsunejirō 渡辺常次郎 (dates unknown).
publisher's mark: 明治廿九年三月十日印刷 // 仝年月十三日発行 // 日本バシ区長谷川丁十九バンチ // 臨写印刷兼発行者 / 福田初次郎, printed in black ink within twin fish cartouche, bottom left; left sheet Transliteration (Translation): Meiji nijūkyūnen sangatsu tōka insatsu // dō nengetsu jūsan nichi hakkō // Nihonbashi-ku Hasegawa-chō jūkyū banchi / Fukuda Hatsujirō (printed Meiji 29 [1896] 3rd month 10th day [March 10th] // issued same year and month, 13th day // [by] Fukuda Hatsujirō [at address:] Nihonbashi-ku Hasegawa-chō 19 banchi) Language: Japanese
title: 千代田之大奥 / おたち退, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche, upper right; right sheet Transliteration (Translation): Chiyoda no ōoku / otachnoki (Chiyoda Inner Palace / Evacuation) Language: Japanese
signature: 楊洲周延, printed, lower right; right sheet Transliteration: Yōshū Chikanobu Language: Japanese
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Traditional Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
Bequest of James Sumner Douglass
- Accession Number
2006.93.32a-c
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Hashimoto Chikanobu was a samurai who fought on the losing side in the civil war of 1868 that led to the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate. In later years, he often designed prints that looked back with nostalgia to the era of samurai rule. In the series "The Inner Precincts of Chiyoda," Chikanobu imagines something he never saw—the inner precincts of Edo Castle, which housed the shogun’s mother, wife, and concubines. The area was off limits to all men other than the shogun himself or his young male heir. Evacuation may refer to the great fire of 1844 that destroyed much of the castle. Soberly clad female guards patrol the palace grounds at night, carrying naginata spears—the weapon of choice for samurai women.
- Exhibitions
2013 Legendary Samurai Portland Art Museum