UTAGAWA TOYOHARU (1735-1814)*
UTAGAWA TOYOHARU (1735-1814)*

THE SALT MAIDENS MATSUKAZE AND MURASAME FROM THE KABUKI DANCE "SHIOKUMI" (SALT GATHERING) EDO PERIOD, 1799

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UTAGAWA TOYOHARU (1735-1814)*
The salt maidens Matsukaze and Murasame from the kabuki dance "Shiokumi" (Salt gathering)
Edo period, 1799
Signed Gyonen rokujugo-o Ichiryusai Utagawa Toyoharu, sealed Ichiryusai; dated age 65 [1799]
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
42.3/8 x 17.1/8in. (107.5 x 43.5cm.)
Provenance
Higuchi Fubun'o

Lot Essay

published:

Higuchi Fubun'o zohin nyusatsu (Auction catalogue of the Higuchi Fubun'o Collection) (Osaka: Osaka Bijutsu Kurabu [Osaka Art Club], 1931), no. 34.

Japan Ukiyo-e Society, ed., Ukiyo-e geijutsu/Ukiyo-e Art 103 (April 1992), back cover illustr.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 71.

Shibui Kiyoshi, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings of Beauties in Japanese Collections, vol. 1 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1983), Horeki pl. 22.

For similar paintings see Martie W. Young and Robert J. Smith, Japanese Painters of the Floating World, exh. cat. (Ithaca: Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell Univeristy, 1966), no. 60; Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e 2: Meiwa--Kansei (Ukiyo-e painting: Meiwa era to Kansei era), Nihon no bijutsu 2, no. 249 (Tokyo: Shibundo, 1987), pl. 12.