After KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (19th century)*

ARCHER IRON KETTLE AND VOTIVE PAINTING (EMA) OF ROOSTER AND HEN EMBLEMS OF GOOD FORTUNE MAN AND LONGEVITY CHARACTER EMANATING FROM A BRAZIER BODHIDHARMA SELLING ZAZEN BEANS IN FUKAGAWA LEAF AND BELL FLOWER

Details

After KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (19th century)*
Archer Iron kettle and votive painting (ema) of rooster and hen
Emblems of good fortune
Man and longevity character emanating from a brazier
Bodhidharma selling zazen beans in Fukagawa
Leaf and bell flower
The first signed Hachijunanaro (age 87) manji hitsu, sealed Katsushika; the second--sixth bearing signature and/or seals of Hokusai, the second with inscription, the fifth with box attestation by Fujikake Shizuya
Hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk; ink and color on silk; ink and color on paper; ink and color on paper; ink and color on paper; ink and color on paper

Attributed to HISHIKAWA SORI III (fl. late 18th--early 19th century)*
Clam vendor
Tale of Bunbuku chagama (Tale of the Badger-teakettle)

Signed Hyakurin Sori ga and with kao; poem signed Yomo no Magao, sealed Magao; the second painting signed Sori ga, and sealed, with inscription by Yomo no Magao
Hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
29.5/8 x 11in. (75.3 x 28cm.); 33.7/8 x 11in. (86.2 x 28cm.); 14.5/8 x 10in. (37 x 25.5cm.); 12.3/8 x 10.5/8in. (62 x 27cm.); 13.3/8 x 5in. (34 x 14cm.); 27 x 8in. (68.5 x 21.5cm.); 36.5/8 x 11in. (93 x 28cm.); 35 x 10.3/8in. (89.5 x 26.4cm.) (8)

Provenance

The first, Hosomi Ryo, Sakai
The fifth, Hayashi Tadamasa, Paris
The seventh, Hirano Masakichi, Akita City

Exhibited

Mitsukoshi Department Store, Nihombashi, Tokyo, Hokusai ten, 1967.4.11--23 [the first painting]

"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 [the first painting]:
Sendai City Museum, Sendai, 1988.6.11--7.17
Osaka Municipal Museum, Osaka, 1988.9.6--10.9
Sogo Museum, Yokohama, 1988.10.20--11.13

Fuji Art Museum, Fujinomiya City, 1983.10.2--11.27 [the second--eighth paintings]

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. 78 [the first painting].

Hokusai ten (Hokusai exhibition), edited by Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, 1967), no. 63 [the first].

Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hokusai, vol. 7 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1982), no. 81 [the first].

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), no. 67 [the second painting]; no. 72 [the third]; no. 65 [the fourth]; no. 69 [the fifth]; no. 68 [the sixth]; no. 57 [the seventh]; no. 66 [the eighth].

Shibui Kiyoshi, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings of Beauties in Japanese Collections, vol. 2 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1983), pl. 7 [the seventh].