KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO (1726-1792)*

THREE BEAUTIES EDO PERIOD, LATE TENMEI (1781-89)--EARLY KANSEI (1789-1801) ERAS

Details

KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO (1726-1792)*
Three beauties
Edo period, late Tenmei (1781-89)--early Kansei (1789-1801) eras
Signed Katsu Shunsho ga, sealed Zoka gachu
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
37 x 13in. (94.6 x 34.1cm.)

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, 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. 38.

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. 35.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 42.

Naito Masato, "Katsukawa Shunsho no nikuhitsu ni tsuite" (Beauty paintings by Katsukawa Shunsho), Bijutsushi 125 (1988), cited p. 71.

Wakakuwa Midori, Kakusareta shisen: Ukiyo-e, yoga no josei rataizo (Hidden line of vision: The female nude in ukiyo-e and Western painting), vol. 2 of Iwanami kindai Nihon no bijutsu (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1997).