LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk

Measurements:

36.69 in. (93.20 cm.) (height) by 11.61 in. (29.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Katsu Shunsho ga and kao

Exhibited:

Hiroshima Museum of Art, "Ukiyoe hyakka ryoran: Onna no yosooi, setsugekka, fasshon" (Flowering ukiyo-e: Women's dress, Snow, moon and flowers, fashion), 2005.1.3--2.6.

Literature:

Naito Masato, Shunsho no nikuhitsu shungakan: Shungu higi zukan (Shunsho's painted erotic handscroll Secret Games in the Spring Palace) in Shirakura Yoshihiko, ed., Katsukawa Shunsho nikuhitsu Shungu higi zukan (A painting by Katsukawa Shunsho: The illustrated handscroll Secret Games in the Spring Palace) (Tokyo: Gakushu kenkyusha, 2003), ref. pl. 2. Kobe shinbunsha, ed., Ukiyoe hyakka ryoran: Onna no yosooi, setsugekka, fasshon (Flowering ukiyo-e: Women's dress, Snow, moon and flowers, fashion) (Kobe: Kobe shinbunsha, 2003), pl. 3.