MIHATA JORYU (fl. 1830-44)*

BEAUTY AND MAPLE TREE EDO PERIOD, TENPO ERA (1830-44)

Details

MIHATA JORYU (fl. 1830-44)*
Beauty and maple tree
Edo period, Tenpo era (1830-44)
Signed Joryu, sealed Joryo shin shin
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
43 x 16.3/8in. (109.2 x 41.8cm.)

Exhibited

"Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meisaku ten: Saki kaoru Edo no joseibi," shown at the following venues:
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Nagoya, 1984.1.4--11
Sogo Department Store, Shinsaibashi, Osaka, 1984.1.27--2.8
Tokyu Department Store, Nihombashi, Tokyo, 1984.2.17--29
Takashimaya Department Store, Shijo, Kyoto, 1984.4.19--5.1

"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:

Akai Tatsuro, Sukenobu/Settei, vol. 9 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e, edited by Narazaki Muneshige (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1982), pl. 44.

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. 67.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 63.

Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meisaku ten: Saki kaoru Edo no joseibi (Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e painting: The blooming and fragrant beauty of Edo women), edited by Narazaki Muneshige, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1984), pl. 57.

The waka (31-syllable poem), signed Hidemaro, resonates with the theme of the painting:

usuku koki Amidst the brocade
momiji no nishiki of maple leaves, light and dark,
kasane-tsutsu falling one atop another,
miru me mo aya ni a gleaming maiden
tateru taoyame appears before my eyes.