Style of KUWAGATA KEISAI (19th century)*

SEATED BEAUTY

Details

Style of KUWAGATA KEISAI (19th century)*
Seated beauty
Signed Eishi Shoshin hitsu, sealed Shoshin
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

After OKUMURA MASANOBU (19th century)*
Dancer
Bearing signature Okumura Bunkaku Masanobu hitsu, and one seal
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

ANONYMOUS (first half 19th century)*
Beauty riding a crane
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on paper

TAKIZAWA RIMPU (first half 19th century)*
Festival dance
Signed Rimpu, and three seals, with poem inscribed by artist
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

ANONYMOUS (first half 19th century)*
Beauty and Bodhidharma crossing the river on a reed
Sealed; inscription by Hizan Zenshi
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
14 x 15.7/8 in. (35.5 x 40.3 cm); 9.7/8 x 18.3/8in. (25 x 46.6cm.); 13 x 20 in. (34.4 x 50.8 cm); 13.3/8 x 20.5/8in. (34 x 52.5cm.); 15 x 25.3/8in. (38.3 x 64.5cm.) (5)

Exhibited

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

Lot Essay

published:

Uchida Kinzo, "Kuwagata Keisai kenkyu: Okakae eshi jidai no katsudo o megutte; jo" (Research on Kuwagata Keisai: Concerning the activity of a period when artists worked for daimyo clients; Part 1), Kokka 1158, fig. p. 19 [the first painting].

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. 44 [the second].