Toshusai Sharaku (Act. 1794-95)

Segawa Kikunojo III as Oshizu, the wife of Tanabe Bunzo

細節

Toshusai Sharaku (Act. 1794-95)
Segawa Kikunojo III as Oshizu, the wife of Tanabe Bunzo
An okubie-e (large-head portrait) on a dark silver mica ground of the actor in the play Hana-ayame Bunroku Soga, performed at the Miyako Theater in the fifth month of Kansei 6 (1794), signed Toshusai Sharaku ga and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo--very good impression, white mica on collar of robe, slightly faded, stains, left edge slightly trimmed, repaired tears, wear to mica at edges and rubbed opposite left ear, horizontal centerfold, pin hole worming, lightly backed
oban tate-e: 37.5 x 24.5cm.

來源

Henri Vever, sold Sotheby's London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, 26 March 1974, lot 249

拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever
Collection, vol. 2 (London and New York: Philip Wilson Publishers and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1976), no. 583.

For other impressions see Asano Shugo, Suwa Haruo and Yamaguchi Keizaburo, Toshusai Sharaku: Gensundai zensakuhin (Complete works of Toshusai Sharaku reproduced in actual sizes) (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2002), pl. 7; Yamaguchi Keizaburo, Sharaku no zembo (Complete works of Sharaku) (Tokyo: Tokyo Shoseki, 1994), pl. 6, p. 13; Sato Mitsunobu, Ukiyoe meihinten (Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e) (Yokohama: Hiraki Bijutsukan, 1993), no. 67; Roger Keyes, Sharaku, portraits d'acteurs 1794-1795, exh. cat. (Paris: Huguette Berès, 1980), no. 7; Yamaguchi Keizaburo, Sharaku, vol. 7 of Ukiyoe taikei (Compendium of ukiyo-e) (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1973), pl. 9; Suzuki Juzo, Sharaku, in Masterworks of Ukiyo-e, vol. 2 (Tokyo and Palo Alto, Ca.: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1968), pl. 2, p. 34.

Another example was sold in these Rooms, 26 April 1995, lot 32.