{"id":978,"date":"2014-09-02T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/?page_id=978"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:02:49","slug":"shiokumi-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/japanese-dolls\/floating-world\/shiokumi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiokumi"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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A simple but mysterious subject: a young woman, very richly dressed, wearing a tall gold eboshi hat which ought to belong to a man, and carrying a pair of pails, painted with waves, on a yoke across her back. She is Shiokumi<\/em>, a “salt-scooper” who carries seawater for the purpose of making salt. But why is she so elaborately dressed? Acccording to Sakura Dolls of Japan<\/em> (Abston & Uchioke, 1963), she represents the daughter of a legendary lord of an inland region, who carried the salt in wartime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Another story is the one about the 9th-century sisters, two shiokumi, who had been loved by the poet-politician Arihara Yukihara during his exile in Suma but were left with only his cloak, his hat, and a poem when he returned to the capital. This romantic story is the subject of the 14th-century Noh play Matsukaze <\/em> (Pine Wind) which can be read online. In the next century this became a Kabuki play, and the dance of the shiokumi was a popular set-piece, which might be performed on its own. See John Fiorillo’s commentary on a print represented below.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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<a href=”https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/files\/matzuscarf.jpg”><\/a> A silk furoshiki depicting the Noh play Matzukaze.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
A hagoita (made using oshi-e or \"padded painting\") showing the salt-scooper.
<a href=”https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/files\/matsuhag.jpg”><\/a> A hagoita (made using oshi-e or “padded painting” showing the salt-scooper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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<a href=”https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/files\/shiokumx2.jpg”><\/a> Two dolls representing this story. The pottery doll, who is missing her buckets, suggests a Kabuki or dance performance of <em>Matsukaze<\/em>. The bamboo doll is simpler, but wears the gold cap recalling the story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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<a href=”https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/files\/Shunzan600h.jpg”><\/a> In this 18th-century woodblock by Shunzan, it is a woman playing the role of Matsukaze, an amateur actress, an oiran (Yoshiwara courtesan) named Asa. The performance is a collaboration between kabuki actors and courtesans for the Niwaka Festival.(Image with permission of John Fiorillo.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":857,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978\/revisions\/1579"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jshoaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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This sweet young lady evokes a child, not an actor in a role.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/th>
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A small 20th-c. woodblock illustration strongly resembling the doll at right; does it represent a doll, a girl, or an actor...?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n