MIYAGAWA CHOSHUN (1682-1752)*
MIYAGAWA CHOSHUN (1682-1752)*

YOSHIWARA PLEASURE QUARTER EDO PERIOD, KYOHO ERA (1716-36)

Details
MIYAGAWA CHOSHUN (1682-1752)*
Yoshiwara pleasure quarter
Edo period, Kyoho era (1716-36)
Signed Yamato-e Miyagawa Choshun zu, and two illegible seals
Handscroll remounted as three hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
14 x 51.5/8in. (37.5 x 131.2cm.); 14 x 35in. (36.8 x 88.8cm.); 14 x 41in. (36.8 x 104cm.) (3)
Provenance
Marquis Inoue Kaoru, Tokyo
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

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), pl. 5.

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. 25.

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. 25.

Inagaki Shin'ichi, ed., Zusetsu ukiyo-e nyumon (Illustrated ukiyo-e primer) (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1990), color pls. pp. 22, 23.

Inoue koshakuke goshozohin nyusatsu (Sale of the collection of Marquis Inoue) (Tokyo: Tokyo Bijutsu Kurabu [Tokyo Art Club], November 9, 1925), no. 94.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 in Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pls. 23, 24, 25.

Narazaki Muneshige, Choshun, vol. 3 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e, edited by Narazaki Muneshige (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1982), pl. 5.




At the time of the 1925 sale of the Inoue Collection, the painting was still intact as a set of two handscrolls. These three hanging scrolls are fragments of the second handscroll.