TEISAI HOKUBA (1771-1844)*
TEISAI HOKUBA (1771-1844)*

A GEISHA HUNTING FIREFLIES IN THE SUMIDA RIVER EDO PERIOD, BUNSEI ERA (1818-39)

Details
TEISAI HOKUBA (1771-1844)*
A geisha hunting fireflies in the Sumida River
Edo period, Bunsei era (1818-39)
Signed Teisai hitsu, sealed Hokuba
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
38.1/8 x 13.5/8in. (96.8 x 35.2cm.)
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, ed., Azabu bijutsukan: Shuzohin zuroku (Azabu Museum of Art: Catalogue of the collection) (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art, 1986), no. 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. 65.

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. 82.

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. 58.

Nagata Seiji, Iki no bi, ukiyo-e (The beauty of chic, ukiyo-e), vol. 7 of Meiga to deau bijutsukan (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1992), color pl. p. 40.

Shibui Kiyoshi, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings of Beauties in Japanese Collections, vol. 2 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1983), pl. 32.




For a similar painting see Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meisaku ten/Orinpikku Tokyo taikai kinen/The exhibition of ukiyoe hand-paintings [sic]: In commemoration of the Tokyo Olympics, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1964), no. 131.