SHIGEMASA: hosoban (31.5 x 14.3cm.); titled in a rectangular cartouche Ukiyo Mutamagawa dai roku, Kii "Six Jewel Rivers of the floating world, No. 6, Kii province", a beauty carrying a basket of flowers walking along a river near a brigde with a boy, the poem by Kukai in the square cartouche on top and name of the poet in the title cartouche, signed Kitao Shigemasa ga and published by Moriya Jihei--very good impression, good color though some pigments faded, slightly stained, very slight soiling along edges

Details

SHIGEMASA: hosoban (31.5 x 14.3cm.); titled in a rectangular cartouche Ukiyo Mutamagawa dai roku, Kii "Six Jewel Rivers of the floating world, No. 6, Kii province", a beauty carrying a basket of flowers walking along a river near a brigde with a boy, the poem by Kukai in the square cartouche on top and name of the poet in the title cartouche, signed Kitao Shigemasa ga and published by Moriya Jihei--very good impression, good color though some pigments faded, slightly stained, very slight soiling along edges

Provenance

Henri Vever, sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books, Drawings and Fan Paintings from the Henri Vever Collection: Part II, 26 March, 1975, lot 96.