KITAGAWA YUKIMARO (fl. ca. 1781-1801)*
KITAGAWA YUKIMARO (fl. ca. 1781-1801)*

COURTESAN AND ATTENDANTS PARADING UNDER CHERRY BLOSSOMS EDO PERIOD, KANSEI ERA (1789-1801)

Details
KITAGAWA YUKIMARO (fl. ca. 1781-1801)*
Courtesan and attendants parading under cherry blossoms
Edo period, Kansei era (1789-1801)
Signed Takeshibaura Yukimaro sha, and with two seals (illegible)
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
40.3/8 x 12.7/8in. (102.6 x 32.8cm.)
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), no. 35.

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. 48.

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. 39.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 29.




A courtesan is accompanied on a cherry-blossom viewing excursion by two kamuro (child assistants) and a shinzo (teenage apprentice). The inscription--a mock Zen saying attributed to Priest Takuan--is nearly identical to that on lot 60.