CHOBUNSAI EISHI (1756-1829)*
CHOBUNSAI EISHI (1756-1829)*

BEAUTY DREAMING OF THE TALES OF ISE EDO PERIOD, BUNKA ERA (1804-18)

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CHOBUNSAI EISHI (1756-1829)*
Beauty dreaming of the Tales of Ise
Edo period, Bunka era (1804-18)
Signed Chobunsai Eishi hitsu, sealed Eishi
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; box lid inscription by Narazaki Muneshige
31.3/8 x 11in. (79.7 x 30cm.)
Exhibited
Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, "Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part I: 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. 39.

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, and Japan Institute of Arts and Crafts, eds., Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part I: 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. 46.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 30.




Other examples of this subject attributed to Eishi are in the British Museum (Timothy Clark, Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum [London: British Museum Press, 1992], pl. 75) and in the Chiossone Museum, Genoa (Kiyossone to kinsei Nihonga satogaeri ten/Museo d'Arte Orientale "Edoardo Chiossone" [Exhibition of Chiossone and a return visit of his Japanese paintings of the modern era/The Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art], edited by Iseki Masaaki et al., exh. cat. [Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1990], pl. 212).