GION SEITOKU (1755-after 1815)*
GION SEITOKU (1755-after 1815)*

GEISHA WITH SHAMISEN EDO PERIOD, CA. 1801-18

Details
GION SEITOKU (1755-after 1815)*
Geisha with shamisen
Edo period, ca. 1801-18
Signed Heian Gizan Seitoku sha, sealed Seitoku no in and Azana iwaku Hakuryu
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
45.1/8 x 14.5/8in. (114.8 x 37cm.)
Exhibited
Mitsukoshi Department Store, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, 1977.6.14--19

"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:

Asano Shugo et al., eds., Ukiyo-eshi (Ukiyo-e painters), vol. 2 of Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten (Great encyclopedia of ukiyo-e), edited by the Editorial Committee of the Ukiyo-e Encyclopedia (Tokyo: Taishukan, 1982), pl. 302.

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. 64.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 93.

Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihinten (Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e painting), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Mitsukoshi Department Store, Ikebukuro, 1977), no. 153.

Tomita Tomoko, "Gion Seitoku ko" (Research on Gion Seitoku), Ukiyo-e geijutsu/Ukiyo-e Art 110 (January 1994), no. 30.