HOTEI GOSEI (fl. ca. 1804-44)*
HOTEI GOSEI (fl. ca. 1804-44)*

PICKING TEA EDO PERIOD, BUNSEI ERA (1818-30)

Details
HOTEI GOSEI (fl. ca. 1804-44)*
Picking tea
Edo period, Bunsei era (1818-30)
Signed Senshuken juo Hotei Gosei ga, sealed Hotei and Sunayama Gosei
Pair of six-panel screens; ink and color on paper
66.7/8 x 132in. (170 x 336.5cm.) each (2)
Exhibited
"Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihinten: 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, ed., Azabu bijutsukan: Shuzohin zuroku (Azabu Museum of Art: Catalogue of the collection) (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art, 1986), no. 45.

Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihinten: 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. 88.

Kaneko Fusui, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings in Japanese Collections, vol. 2 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1977), no. 157.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pls. 68, 69.

Tanaka Tatsuya, "Hotei Gosei no kenkyu" (Research concerning Hotei Gosei), Azabu bijutsukan kenkyu kiyo/Bulletin of the Azabu Museum of Art 1 (spring 1986), color frontispiece.