Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764)

Hanakarakasa sanpukutsui hidari (Flower-design umbrellas, the left sheet of a triptych)

Details

Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764)
Hanakarakasa sanpukutsui hidari (Flower-design umbrellas, the left sheet of a triptych)
Benizuri-e of a dandy (wakashu) walking with an umbrella bearing the mon of the actor Nakamura Kiyosaburo, signed Shomei Hogetsudo Okumura Bunkaku Masanobu hitsu and sealed Tanchosai--very good impression, slightly faded, foxed, lightly rubbed
hosoban: 29.8 x 14.8cm.

Provenance

Théodore Duret (1838-1927) (seal on verso)
Henri Vever (1854-1942), sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, 26 March, 1974, no. 19

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, "Estampes Japonaises Primitives," 1909.2

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
C. Vignier, T. Inada & R. Koechlin, Estampes Japonaises Primitives Exposées au Musée des Arts Décoratifs en Février 1909 (Paris: 1909), no. 183.
Yoshida Teruji, ed., Hanga soshi jidai (Prints of the early period), vol. 3 of Ukiyo-e taisei (Tokyo: Toho Shoin, 1931), pl. 102.

This print is the left sheet of a triptych entitled Hanakarakasa sanpukutsui.
For a right-hand sheet of the triptych, see Tokyo kokuritsu tsukan zumokuroku ukiyo-e hanga Illustrated catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Ukiyo-e prints, vol. I (Tokyo: 1960), no. 246.

More from A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PRINTS AND PAINTINGS

View All