Attributed to TOYOGAWA EISHIN (early 19th century)*

BEAUTY HOLDING AN UMBRELLA AGAINST THE RAIN

Details

Attributed to TOYOGAWA EISHIN (early 19th century)*
Beauty holding an umbrella against the rain
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Style of ISHIKAWA TOYONOBU (19th--20th century)
Beauty reading a poem slip attached to a plum branch
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

HOZUMIAN BAKUSHI (18th century)*
Beauty holding an umbrella beneath a willow in a storm
Signed Hozumian Bakushi ga, sealed Bakushi, and with another seal
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

40 x 10.5/8in. (103 x 27cm.); 45.1/8 x 18.1/8in. (114.5 x 46cm.); 34 x 9in. (87.5 x 24.2cm.) (3)

Exhibited

Mitsukoshi Department Store, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, 1977.6.14--19 [the first]

Nagasaki Municipal Museum and Hamaya Department Store, Nagasaki, 1962.10.11-19 [the second]

Lot Essay

published:
Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten (Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e painting), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Mitsukoshi Department Store, Ikebukuro, 1977), no. 136 [the first painting].

Ukiyo-e nikuhitsu meisaku ten (Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e painting), exh. cat. (Nagasaki: Nagasaki Municipal Museum; Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1962), no. 24 [the second painting].

Shibui Kiyoshi, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings of Beauties in Japanese Collections, vol. 1 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1983), Horeki pl. 5 [the third painting].