TORII KIYONAGA (1752-1815)*

SEGAWA KIKUNOJO III PERFORMING THE KABUKI DANCE "MUSUME DOJOJI" EDO PERIOD, CA. 1783

Details

TORII KIYONAGA (1752-1815)*
Segawa Kikunojo III performing the kabuki dance "Musume Dojoji"
Edo period, ca. 1783
Signed Oju Kiyonaga ga, sealed Seki Kiyonaga
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
40.3/8 x 15.7/8in. (102.4 x 40.4cm.)

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

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. 40.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 41, entry by Asano Shugo.

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), no. 10.