{"product_id":"muraoka-of-konoe-family-bound-with-ropes-1","title":"Muraoka of Konoe Family Bound with Ropes","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTsukioka Yoshitoshi \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Lives of Modern People, A Supplement of the Yamato Newspaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoshitoshi shows us the chief Lady-in-Waiting of the Konoe Clan and active supporter of the loyalists who opposed the relaxed policy of the shogunate to foreign trade. As a result of her beliefs she was arrested and badly tortured in in 1858 during the Ansei purges. Despite the privations, she remained steadfastly loyal and she became a folk hero following the collapse of the shogunate government a decade later. Muraoka is pictured bound by rope, her figure distorted with discomfort; she holds a hank of hair between her teeth. Yoshitoshi has drawn her much younger than her actual seventy years. Note the blackened teeth and painted eyebrows of a married woman. Surely, Yoshitoshi has pictured her sympathetically since her support for the traditional regime echoed his own conservatism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe can consider this a political print. Although it represents the torture of a dissident woman, the drawing and the handling of the figure are exquisite, one of the finest female portraits by Yoshitoshi. There is in this portrayal a sensuousness and tenderness that belie the horrid circumstances of the subject matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1887\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calisphere.org\/item\/1614f5d4d26edfa5847d52dd027fb01e\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/calisphere.org\/item\/1614f5d4d26edfa5847d52dd027fb01e\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mie Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31012712185934,"sku":"","price":371.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0095\/7602\/2094\/products\/yoshitoshi.jpg?v=1593823291","url":"https:\/\/miegallery.com\/en-de\/products\/muraoka-of-konoe-family-bound-with-ropes-1","provider":"Mie Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}