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Chojiya nai Meizan (The courtesan Meizan of the Chojiya), from the series Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyo (Models for fashion: New designs as fresh as young leaves)
Details
Isoda Koryusai (act. 1768-88)
Chojiya nai Meizan (The courtesan Meizan of the Chojiya), from the series Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyo (Models for fashion: New designs as fresh as young leaves)
The courtesan kneeling beside a stand with a goose-shaped incense burner, smelling incense wafting from another incense burner in her hand shaped as a lotus pod, two kamuro kneel beside her, a low, square game table with two markers in the foreground, signed Koryu ga and with kakihan, published by Nishimuraya Eijudo--good impression, faded, soiled, stained, creases, worming, repairs
oban tate-e: 37.7 x 25.5cm.
Chojiya nai Meizan (The courtesan Meizan of the Chojiya), from the series Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyo (Models for fashion: New designs as fresh as young leaves)
The courtesan kneeling beside a stand with a goose-shaped incense burner, smelling incense wafting from another incense burner in her hand shaped as a lotus pod, two kamuro kneel beside her, a low, square game table with two markers in the foreground, signed Koryu ga and with kakihan, published by Nishimuraya Eijudo--good impression, faded, soiled, stained, creases, worming, repairs
oban tate-e: 37.7 x 25.5cm.
Provenance
Henri Vever
Literature
PUBLISHED:
Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection vol. 1, (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet and Rizzoli International, 1976), no. 189.
Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection vol. 1, (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet and Rizzoli International, 1976), no. 189.