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

BEAUTY AT HER TOILETTE EDO PERIOD, BUNKA ERA (1804-18)

Details
CHOBUNSAI EISHI (1756-1829)*
Beauty at her toilette
Edo period, Bunka era (1804-18)
Signed Chobunsai Eishi hitsu, sealed Eishi
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
37.1/8 x 13in. (94.2 x 34.8cm.)
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

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.11.15--1993.2.7

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), pl. 16.

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. 51.

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. 44.

Dale Carolyn Gluckman, and Sharon Sadako Takeda, When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-period Japan, exh. cat. (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992), cat. no. 201, color pl. p. 227.

Kobayashi Tadashi, Edo kaigashi ron (History of Edo painting) (Tokyo: Ruri Shobo, 1983), pl. 8.

_____, Ukiyo-e no miryoku: Edo no shomin bunka (The charm of ukiyo-e: Edo popular culture) (Tokyo: Bijinesu Kyoiku Shuppansha, 1992), p. 217.

_____, ed., Edo shomin no kaiga: Fuzokuga to ukiyo-e (Paintings of Edo townsmen: Genre painting and ukiyo-e), vol. 22 of Nihon bijutsu zenshu (Tokyo: Gakushu Kenkyusha, 1994), pl. 31.

_____, Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 50.

Nagasaki Iwao, "Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e no fukushoku byosha ni tsuite" (About the fashion of ukiyo-e paintings), in Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan II (Tokyo National Museum II), vol. 2 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan, edited by Kobayashi Tadashi (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 12--1, p. 210.

Noguchi Takehiko, and Kobayashi Tadashi, eds., Edo shisei no bi: Ukiyo-e, fuzokuga to Edo shoha (The beauty of the city of Edo: Ukiyo-e, genre painting, and various Edo schools), vol. 11 of Nihon bi o kataru (Tokyo: Gyosei, 1989), pl. 67.

Tazawa Hiroyoshi, "Azabu bijutsukan shozo nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Tenrankai annai" (Exhibition of ukiyo-e masterpieces in the Azabu Museum of Art: Exhibition news), Ukiyo-e geijutsu/Ukiyo-e Art 94 (October 1988), nn.

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), pl. 41.