HISHIKAWA WAO (fl. 1688-1704)*
HISHIKAWA WAO (fl. 1688-1704)*

KUME THE TRANSCENDENT AND THE MAIDEN WASHING AT THE RIVERBANK EDO PERIOD, GENROKU ERA (1688-1704)

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HISHIKAWA WAO (fl. 1688-1704)*
Kume the Transcendent and the Maiden washing at the riverbank
Edo period, Genroku era (1688-1704)
Signed Hishikawa Sanjin Wao zu, sealed Wakoku and Shikun
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
17.1/8 x 25in. (43.4 x 64cm.)
Exhibited
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

Lot Essay

published:

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. 16.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 19 (entry by Uchida Kinzo).

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. D.