Toba Hiromaru (Act. ca. 1804-18)
Toba Hiromaru (Act. ca. 1804-18)

Beauty and a young man after a rain shower

細節
Toba Hiromaru (Act. ca. 1804-18)
Beauty and a young man after a rain shower
Signed Toba Hiromaru and sealed Hiromaru
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
45¾ x 10¾in. (116.2 x 27.3cm.)
來源
The Manno Art Museum, Osaka

拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
Yoshida Teruji, Ukiyoe jiten (Ukiyo-e encyclopedia), vol. 3 (Tokyo: Gabundo, 1974), p. 112.
Yamaguchi Keizaburo, ed., Hiroshige, vol. 8 of Nikuhitsu ukiyoe (Ukiyo-e painting) (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1981), pl. 61.
Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Manno bijutsukan (The Manno Art Museum), vol. 7 of Nikuhitsu ukiyoe taikan/Ukiyo-e paintings in Japanese collections (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1996), pl. 46.

Hiromaru's life dates are unknown but he was a pupil of Utagawa Toyohiro (d.1830). There are no prints by this artist, but the painting's extreme vertical composition reflects the influence of the pillar-print format.