Japanese and Korean Works of Art
Catalog Information: 447 lots | 440 with images
Lot 1: Suzuki Harunobu (1724-1770)
Courtesan and catThe first a beauty in front of a tsuitate cradling a cat inside the collar of her robe as a child reaches up for it, signed Harunobu ga; together with a print after Harunobu of a young girl near a stream holding a fan--good impressio [...more]
Lot 2: Suzuki Harunobu (1724-1770)
A parody of Ariwara no Narihira, 'The eastern journey' from Ise monogatariA young woman on horseback near the sea, led by a young man, Mount Fuji in the distance emerging from clouds, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--very good impression, good color, gauff [...more]
Lot 3: Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)
Kitagawa Tsukimaro (Act. 1800s-1820s)Utagawa Toyokuni II (1777-1835)Four prints, the right sheet of the polyptych, Summer evening by the river at Hamacho, signed Kiyonaga ga; the second the right sheet of a triptych Shoshun no Echigoya (Early spring [...more]
Lot 4: Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)
Two beauties, one holding a fan and insect cage, Odawara from the series Bijin ichidai gojusan tsugi (Beauties one by one: Comparisons of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido)Courtesan combing her hair, peonies, wisteria and poem above, from the s [...more]
Lot 5: Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)
Gosho guruma joro no zu (Palace carriages and noble ladies)Karakoto of the Chojiya teahouse, from the series Yukun nana Komachi (Courtesans as the seven Komachi)Komurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series Sakizoroi shintaku no kadan (Array of blooms in [...more]
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