Yanagi Buncho (Fl. ca. 1764-1801)

Six scenes from famous kabuki plays

Details

Yanagi Buncho (Fl. ca. 1764-1801)
Six scenes from famous kabuki plays
Each signed Yanagi Buncho ga, with two seals
Six paintings mounted as a six-panel screen; ink and color on paper
46 x 19 1/8in. (116.9 x 48.5cm.) each

Provenance

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo

PUBLISHED:
Azabu Museum of Art, ed., Azabu bijutsukan: Shuzohin zuroku (Azabu Museum of Art: Catalogue of the collection) (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art, 1986), no. 34.

Lot Essay

The scenes include Segawa Kikunojo in Kyo kanoko musume Dojoji and Ichikawa Danjuro in Uiro uri.

Previously sold in these Rooms, 27 October, 1998, lot 138

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