Attributed to HISHIKAWA MOROFUSA (fl. 1684-1704)*
Attributed to HISHIKAWA MOROFUSA (fl. 1684-1704)*

BEAUTY AND ATTENDANT EDO PERIOD, GENROKU ERA (1688-1704)

Details
Attributed to HISHIKAWA MOROFUSA (fl. 1684-1704)*
Beauty and attendant
Edo period, Genroku era (1688-1704)
Sealed Morofusa
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
12.3/8 x 15.1/8in. (31.4 x 38.4cm.)
Exhibited
"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 1: 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, 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. 12.

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, and Japan Institute of Arts and Crafts, eds., Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: 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. 12.

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. 186, color pl. p. 222.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 4.

Suntory Museum of Art, ed., Hishikawa Moronobu ten: 300nen kinen ukiyo-e tanjo (Exhibition of Hishikawa Moronobu: 300-year anniversary of the birth of ukiyo-e), introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Suntory Museum of Art, 1994), ref. no. B.