SHINSAI: kakuban surimono (21 x 18.5cm.); A beauty watching from a veranda as a child, holding a handlamp, goes to open a gate, entitled Tomoyasu no musume "Daughter of Tomoyasu", from the series San bijin "Three Beauties", with accompanying poems by Shojutei Michitomo and Shakuyakutei, signed Shinsai--good impression and color, very slightly toned, otherwise good condition

细节

SHINSAI: kakuban surimono (21 x 18.5cm.); A beauty watching from a veranda as a child, holding a handlamp, goes to open a gate, entitled Tomoyasu no musume "Daughter of Tomoyasu", from the series San bijin "Three Beauties", with accompanying poems by Shojutei Michitomo and Shakuyakutei, signed Shinsai--good impression and color, very slightly toned, otherwise good condition

拍品专文

Tomoyasu no musume is better known as Fujiwara Michitsuna no haha (the mother of Michitsuna). The image and poems on this print derive from the opening passage of her diary, the Kagero Nikki (The Gossamer Years; mid-10th century), in which a messenger for her husband-to-be, Fujiwara Kaneie, pounds persistently at the gate.