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Lot Essay
published:
Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pls. 43--1, 43--2.
A haiku, signed Ranko, accompanies this depiction of a geisha and her attendant on a summer evening:
suzushisa ya Strolling the river's edge
tsune ni toranu where I usually never go--
kawa no hata how refreshingly cool!
Shuncho's career was relatively short lived, lasting just ten years or so, beginning in the early 1780s. He provided illustrations for a popular novel published in 1783, about the same time he is thought to have begun producing the color woodcuts for which he is best known. His paintings are extremely rare: fewer than ten are known. The painting here can be grouped with works of the late 1780s such as Two Young Men (Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo) and Yoshiwara Teahouse (British Museum).
Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pls. 43--1, 43--2.
A haiku, signed Ranko, accompanies this depiction of a geisha and her attendant on a summer evening:
suzushisa ya Strolling the river's edge
tsune ni toranu where I usually never go--
kawa no hata how refreshingly cool!
Shuncho's career was relatively short lived, lasting just ten years or so, beginning in the early 1780s. He provided illustrations for a popular novel published in 1783, about the same time he is thought to have begun producing the color woodcuts for which he is best known. His paintings are extremely rare: fewer than ten are known. The painting here can be grouped with works of the late 1780s such as Two Young Men (Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo) and Yoshiwara Teahouse (British Museum).