SUIMUTEI SHOROKU (1779-1845)*
SUIMUTEI SHOROKU (1779-1845)*

GEISHA EDO PERIOD, BUNKA ERA (1804-18)

Details
SUIMUTEI SHOROKU (1779-1845)*
Geisha
Edo period, Bunka era (1804-18)
Signed Shoroku hitsu, and sealed Meigetsuji shiseifu jibutsurai; poem inscribed by Okubo Shibutsu (1767-1837), signed Shibutsu rojin sho and sealed Tenmai and Hanritsu
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
35 x 12.1/8in. (88.9 x 30.9cm.)
Exhibited
"Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art," shown at the following venues:
Sendai City Museum, Sendai, 1988.6.11--7.17
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, 1988.9.6--10.9
Sogo Museum, Yokohama, 1988.10.20--11.13

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, "Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi/'Fashion of Edo': Women's dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings," 1989.6.14--7.2

Lot Essay

published:

Azabu Museum of Art, ed., Azabu bijutsukan: Shuzohin zuroku (Azabu Museum of Art: Catalogue of the collection) (Tokyo: Azabu Musuem of Art, 1986), no. 40.

Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art, introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art; Osaka: Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 53.

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, and Japan Institute of Arts and Crafts, eds., Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi/"Fashion of Edo": Women's dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1989), pl. 47.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 31.
Narazaki Muneshige, Utamaro, vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e, edited by Narazaki Muneshige (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1981), pl. 55.

Shoroku, a student of Eishi (lots 66-70), learned poetry kyoka with Ota Nanpo (lot 81). The Chinese-style verse eulogizing this geisha was inscribed by Okubo Shibutsu (1767-1837), a literary cohort of Nanpo (for Shibutsu see also lots 81 and 113).