MIYAGAWA ISSHO (1689-1779)*

NEW YEAR IN THE YOSHIWARA

Details

MIYAGAWA ISSHO (1689-1779)*
New Year in the Yoshiwara
Signed Yamato-e Miyagawa Issho, and two seals
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on paper
19.1/8 x 35.5/8in. (48.5 x 90.5cm.)

Provenance

Hirano Masakichi, Akita City

Exhibited

Fuji Art Museum, Fujinomiya City, 1983.10.2--11.27

Lot Essay

published:

Fuji Art Museum, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga ten (Exhibition of ukiyo-e beauty painting), catalogue by Nishina Sosuke, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1983), no. 34.

Shibui Kiyoshi, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings of Beauties in Japanese Collections, vol. 1 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1983), Genroku pl. 22.