LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Measurements:

32.87 in. (83.50 cm.) (height) by 12.01 in. (30.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Ishikawa Shuha Toyonobu zu, sealed Ishikawa uji and Toyonobu; poem with four seals; Wood box signed by Takeoka Toyota

Exhibited:

Kyoto Imperial Museum, "Ukiyoe shubi" (Beauty of ukiyo-e paintings), 1923.4. Kushigata Shunsen Museum, Kushigatacho, Yamanashi, "Ukiyoe no hana - Kenrantaru nikuhitsu ukiyoe no sekai: Nikuhitsu ukiyoe meisakuten" (The flowers of ukiyo-e: The gorgeous world of ukiyo-e paintings), 1995.4.29--6.25. Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin-Dahlem, "Schönheit und Eros: Bilder der Fliessenden Welt von Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro und anderen aus der Sammlung Sumisho, Tokyo," 2008.10.17--2009.1.4.

Literature:

Kokka 356 (1920), p. 271. Kyoto Imperial Museum, ed., Ukiyoe shubi (Beauty of ukiyo-e paintings) (Kyoto: Kyoto Imperial Museum, 1923), unnumbered. Yoshida Teruji, ed., Hanga soshi jidai II (Period of the genesis of woodblock prints II), vol. 3 of Ukiyoe taisei (Tokyo: Toho shoin, 1931), p. 172. Sakato Yaichiro, ed., Sukenobu/Toyonobu, vol. 4 of Ukiyoe taika shusei (Collection of ukiyo-e masters) (Tokyo: Taihokaku shobo, 1932), Ishikawa Toyonobu section, pl. 21. Sadamura Tadashi, ed., Ukiyoe no hana - Kenrantaru nikuhitsu ukiyoe no sekai: Nikuhitsu ukiyoe meisakuten (The flowers of ukiyo-e: The gorgeous world of ukiyo-e paintings) (Tokyo: Bun'yusha, 1995), pl. 21.

Provenance:

Takeoka Toyota, Kobe.