Katsukawa Shunsho (1726-1792)
Katsukawa Shunsho (1726-1792)

Beauty writing a letter, ca. 1789-92

Details
Katsukawa Shunsho (1726-1792)
Beauty writing a letter, ca. 1789-92
Signed Shunsho ga and sealed Zoka ga chu
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on paper
13¾ x 16½in. (32.8 x 41.8cm.)
Provenance
Kuwabara Yojiro, Matsue City, Shimane

PUBLISHED:
Hoshino Shaku, ed., Wakan meiga hyakushu (100 masterpieces of Japanese and Chinese paintings) (Tokyo: Gahosha, 1917).

Shoyo'an Kuwabarake aizohin tenkan nyusatsu (Sale catalogue of the Kuwabara family collection) (Tokyo: Tokyo bijutsu club, 1933), pl. 222.
Hochi shinbunsha, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyoe shu (Collection of Ukiyo-e paintings) (Tokyo: Kogeisha, 1937), no. 138.

Naito Masato, Katsukawa Shunsho no nikuhitsu bijinga ni tsuite (About Katsukawa Shunsho's beauty paintings), Bijutsushi 125 (1989), p. 72.

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