ANONYMOUS (early 18th century)*
ANONYMOUS (early 18th century)*

COURTESAN READING A POEM SLIP

Details
ANONYMOUS (early 18th century)*
Courtesan reading a poem slip
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
38 x 16.1/8in. (98.4 x 41cm.)
Exhibited
Fuji Art Museum, Fujinomiya City, 1983.10.2--11.27

"Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in 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

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.11.15--1993.2.7

Lot Essay

published:

Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka 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. 23.

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. 23.

Dale Carolyn Gluckman, and Sharon Sadako Takeda, When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-period Japan, exh. cat. (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992), cat. no. 191, color pl. p. 224.

Fuji Art Museum, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga ten (Exhibition of ukiyo-e beauty painting), catalogue by Nishina Sosuke, exh. cat. (Fujinomiya City: Fuji Art Museum, 1983), pl. 11.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 18.

Nagasaki Iwao, "Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e no fukushoku byosha ni tsuite" (About the fashion of ukiyo-e paintings), in Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan II (Tokyo National Museum II), vol. 2 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan, edited by Kobayashi Tadashi (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995): pl. 3-1, p. 207.

Shibui Kiyoshi, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings of Beauties in Japanese Collections, vol. 1, (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1983), Genroku pl. 13.