Attributed to TANAKA MASUNOBU (19th century)*

FIGURES ON A VERANDA OVERLOOKING A BAY

Details

Attributed to TANAKA MASUNOBU (19th century)*
Figures on a veranda overlooking a bay
Bearing signature Masunobu ga
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

FUJIWARA RYUUNSAI (1781-1801)*
Beauties with cat enjoying the evening cool with bats overhead
Signed Toto Ryuunsai ga, sealed Ryuun and Fujiwara
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Attributed to KIKUGAWA HYAKKA (fl. 1804-18)*
Beauty with shuttlecock and battledore
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
32 x 13.5/8in. (82 x 34.8cm.); 32.3/8 x 12in. (82.4 x 30.5cm.); 45 x 15in. (115 x 38.7cm.) (3)

Provenance

Hirano Masakichi, Akita City [the second painting]

Exhibited

Kobayashi Department Store, Niigata City, 1967.5.10--28 [the first painting]
Ichimura Department Store, Nagaoka City, 1967.6.2--13 [the first painting]

Fuji Art Museum, Fujinomiya City, 1983.10.2--11.27 [the second painting]

Lot Essay

published

Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meisaku ten (Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e painting), edited by Niigata Nipposha et al., text by Yoshida Teruji, exh. cat. (Niigata City: Niigata Nipposha, 1967), no. 55 [the first painting].

Shibui Kiyoshi, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e bijinga shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings of Beauties in Japanese Collections, vol. 1 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1983), Genroku pl. 51 [the first painting]; Horeki pl. 26 [the second]; Bunka pl. 14 [the third].

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), no. 44 [the second painting].