Go Gawa poetry club

Courtesans Strolling Beneath Cherry Trees Before the Daikokuya Teahouse, probably 1789. Oban tate-e triptych, woodblock print, color on paper. Three courtesans and their kamuro (child attendants) and shinzo (apprentices) at the Daikokuya Teahouse. In the right-hand sheet, a tanzaku sheet hangs from the branches of the cherry tree with a poem by Yadoya Meshimori (1753-1830), later known as Rokujuen. Brooklyn Museum

The Go Gawa poetry club (Japanese 五側), also known as the Group of Five poetry club or Gogawa poetry group, was a famous poetry club in Edo, Japan, during the early 19th century. Artists working for the group often wrote poetry on illustrated surimono, and signed their work with the Go Gawa symbol, an hourglass resembling the number five.[1] By 1836, the club had already met 1,600 times.[2]

  1. ^ Mertel, Timothy. "Surimono Ukiyo-e Refined". October 1987. Arts of Asia. Archived from the original on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  2. ^ Hokkei "Monkey Trainer" surimono description, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2013. William Sturgis Bigelow Collection.