《四季之花》插图书《表演者招待的女孩》 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	《四季之花》插图书《表演者招待的女孩》
品名（英）	Girls Entertained by Performers, from the illustrated book Flowers of the Four Seasons
入馆年号	1914年，JP1079
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Kitagawa Utamaro【1754 至 1806】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1801
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	6 7/8 x 9 7/8 英寸 (17.5 x 25.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	戏剧表演是人们观看他人的典范。既有角色的划分，也有空间的划分。演员们在规定的区域内移动，而观众则被动地被限制在另一个区域内。这种结构反映在浮世绘版画中，在这些版画中，观看者往往与他们凝视的物体物理分离。他们从阳台往下看，透过百叶窗和窗户窥视，从屏风和窗帘后面窥视。在这本印刷品中，来自乌塔马罗（Utamaro）的一本书，年轻女性模仿宫廷习俗，透过折叠屏风的竹百叶窗观看巡回演出。不同寻常的侧视将我们置于与观众和表演者等距的位置。由于两组都被屏幕部分遮挡，乌塔马洛将我们降级为外部观察者。一个穿着优雅连衣裙的妓女站在两组人中间。她身后屏幕上的鹤和云构成了一个将她与表演者联系在一起的圆圈，但她长袍上层叠的褶皱与坐着的女孩的连衣裙结合在一起，这可能表明她在娱乐和被娱乐方面扮演着双重角色。
介绍（英）	Theatrical performances are paradigms of people watching other people. There is a division of roles as well as a division of space. The actors move about a prescribed area, while the audience remains passively confined to another. This structure is reflected in ukiyo-e prints in which viewers are often physically separated from the objects of their gaze. They look down from balconies, peer through blinds and windows, and peek from behind screens and curtains. In this print, from a book illrstrated by Utamaro, young women, in imitation of courtly customs, watch traveling performers through the bamboo blinds of a folding screen. the unusual side view places us at a point equidistant from the audience and the performers. Since both groups are partially obscured by screens, Utamaro relegates us to the position of an outside observer. A courtesan in an elegant dress stands between the two groups. The cranes and the cloud in the screen behind her complete a circle that connects her with the performers, but the cascading folds of her robe unite with the dress of a seated girl, perhaps indicating a dual role on her part of entertaining and being entertained.