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BEAUTY HOLDING A PIPE EDO PERIOD, KANBUN ERA (1661-73)

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Beauty holding a pipe
Edo period, Kanbun era (1661-73)
Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper Box lid inscription by Narazaki Muneshige
17.7/8 x 11in. (45.6 x 29.9cm.)
Provenance
Mitsuno Koshiro
Exhibited
Chiba Prefectural Museum, Chiba, 1981.9.12--10.14

Yamato Bunkakan, Nara, 1984.10.5--11.11

"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:
Sendai City Museum, Sendai, 1988.6.11--7.17
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, 1988.9.6--10.9
Sogo Museum, Yokohama, 1988.10.20--11.13

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, "Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten Part I: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi/'Fashion of Edo': Women's dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings," 1989.6.14--7.2

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.11.15--1993.2.7

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), no. 22.

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. 7.

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, and Japan Institute of Arts and Crafts, eds., Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten Part I: 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. 7.

Dale Carolyn Gluckman, and Sharon Sadako Takeda, When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-period Japan, exh. cat. (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992), cat. no. 183, color pl. p. 218.

Kaneko Fusui, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings in Japanese Collections, vol. 2 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1977), no. 13.

Kobayashi Tadashi, Edo no bijinga: Kan'ei, Kanbunki no nikuhitsuga (Edo beauty paintings: Painting of the Kan'ei and Kanbun eras) (Tokyo: Gakken, 1982), pl. 128.

_____, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 10.

Nagasaki Iwao, "Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e no fukushoku byosha ni tsuite" (About the fashion of ukiyo-e paintings), in Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan II (Tokyo National Museum II), vol. 2 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan, edited by Kobayashi Tadashi (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 1--1, p. 206.

Narazaki Muneshige, and Kikuchi Sadao, Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e jokan: Shoki ukiyo-e (Ukiyo-e painting 1: Early ukiyo-e) (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1962), pl. 52.

Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ten: Shomin geijutsu no hana (Exhibition of ukiyo-e painting: The flower of the arts of the common people), introduction by Yamaguchi Keizaburo, exh. cat. (Chiba: Chiba Prefectural Museum, 1981), pl. 1.

Yamato Bunkakan, ed., Tokubetsu ten kokuho Matsuura byobu: Edo jidai Kan'ei ki no joseibi (Special exhibition of the National Treasure Matsuura screen: The beauty of women in the Kan'ei era of the Edo period), exh. cat. (Nara: Yamato Bunkakan, 1984), no. 26.

Yoshida Teruji, Ukiyo-e jiten: teihon (Ukiyo-e dictionary: the standard book), vol. 2 (Tokyo: Gabundo, 1974), p. 393.