Lot 105
105
UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI II (1802-1835?)*
UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI II (1802-1835?)*

BEAUTY IN A ROUND WINDOW EDO PERIOD, LATE BUNSEI (1818-30)--EARLY TENPO (1830-44) ERAS

Details
UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI II (1802-1835?)*
Beauty in a round window
Edo period, late Bunsei (1818-30)--early Tenpo (1830-44) eras
Signed Gosotei Toyokuni hitsu, toshidama seal
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
20.1/8in. (51cm.) diameter
Exhibited
Oita Prefectural Art Hall, Oita City, 1986.1.4--2.2

"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. 94.

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. 70.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 81.

Nagata Seiji, Iki no bi, ukiyo-e (The beauty of chic, ukiyo-e), vol. 7 of Meiga to deau bijutsukan (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1992), p. 42.

Ukiyo-e Utagawa-ha ten: Toyoharu kara shodai Hiroshige made (Exhibition of the Utagawa school of ukiyo-e: From Toyoharu to Hiroshige I), exh. cat. (Oita City: Oita Prefectural Art Hall, Oita Prefectural Board of Education, and Oita Godo Shimbunsha, 1986), no. 10.