UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1865)*
UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1865)*

BEAUTIES IN SPRING AND AUTUMN EDO PERIOD, TENPO ERA (1830-44)

Details
UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1865)*
Beauties in spring and autumn
Edo period, Tenpo era (1830-44)
Each signed Kochoro Kunisada ga, sealed Kochoro
Pair of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
8.7/8 x 11in. (22.7 x 29.7cm.) each (2)
Provenance
Hirano Masakichi, Akita City
Exhibited
Fuji Art Museum, Fujinomiya City, 1983.10.2--11.27

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 Museum of Art, 1986), pls. 20--1, 20--2.

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. 71.

Fuji Art Museum, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga ten (Exhibition of ukiyo-e beauty painting), catalogue by Nishina Sosuke, exh. cat. (Fujinomiya City: Fuji Art Museum, 1983), nos. 52, 53.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), nos. 47, 48.

Shibui Kiyoshi, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings of Beauties in Japanese Collections, vol. 1 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1983), Bunka pls. 45, 46.