UTAGAWA TOYOHARU (1735-1814)*

BEAUTIES AND CHERRY BLOSSOMS AT GOTENYAMA EDO PERIOD, KANSEI ERA (1789-1801)

Details

UTAGAWA TOYOHARU (1735-1814)*
Beauties and cherry blossoms at Gotenyama
Edo period, Kansei era (1789-1801)
Signed Ichiryusai Toyoharu ga, sealed Shoju no in
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
39 x 16.3/8in. (99.2 x 41.4cm.)

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, 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. 91.

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. 38.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pls. 70--1, 70--2.

Nagata Seiji, Iki no bi, ukiyo-e (The beauty of chic, ukiyo-e), vol. 7 of Meiga to deau bijutsukan (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1992), p. 43.

Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e: Meiwa--Kansei (Ukiyo-e painting: Meiwa era to Kansei era), Nihon no bijutsu 2, no. 249 (Tokyo: Shibundo, 1987), color pl. inside front cover.