KATSUSHIKA HOKUTO (fl. 1804-44)*

THE SALT MAIDENS MATSUKAZE AND MURASAME FROM THE KABUKI DANCE "SHIOKUMI" (SALT GATHERING) EDO PERIOD, BUNKA ERA (1804-18)

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KATSUSHIKA HOKUTO (fl. 1804-44)*
The salt maidens Matsukaze and Murasame from the kabuki dance "Shiokumi" (Salt gathering)
Edo period, Bunka era (1804-18)
Signed Hokuto ga, sealed... (illegible) and Chizan
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
45 x 20in. (115.8 x 52.8cm.)

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

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. 87.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyio-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 42.

Narazaki Muneshige, Hokusai, vol. 7 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e, edited by Narazaki Muneshige (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1982), pl. 68.