KIKUGAWA EIZAN (1787-1867)*
KIKUGAWA EIZAN (1787-1867)*

TEAHOUSE WAITRESS READING A LOVE LETTER EDO PERIOD, TENPO ERA (1830-44)

Details
KIKUGAWA EIZAN (1787-1867)*
Teahouse waitress reading a love letter
Edo period, Tenpo era (1830-44)
Signed Kikugawa Eizan hitsu; sealed Kikugawa and Toshinobu Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
40.1/8 x 13in. (101.9 x 33.7cm.)
Provenance
Hirano Masakichi, Akita City
Exhibited
Fuji Art Museum, Fujinomiya City, 1983.10.2--11.27

"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, 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. 57.

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. 61.

Fuji Art Museum, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga ten (Exhibition of ukiyo-e beauty painting), catalogue by Nishina Sosuke, exh. cat. (Fujinomiya City: Fuji Art Museum, 1983), no. 40.

Hirafuku Hyakusui, ed., Tokugawa jidai koki (Later Tokugawa period), vol. 7 of Nihon fuzokuga taisei (Tokyo: Chuo Bijutsusha, 1929), no. 62. At the time of this publication there was an inscription in the upper right corner of the painting.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 52.

Shibui Kiyoshi, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings of Beauties in Japanese Collections, vol. 1 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1983), Bunka pl. 41.