LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Hanging scroll; ink, color, silver and gold on silk

Measurements:

38.98 in. (99.00 cm.) (height) by 13.86 in. (35.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Funzen, sealed Ganku and Funzen; Wood box signed and authenticated by ukiyo-e scholar Narazaki Muneshige

Exhibited:

The Museum of Kyoto, "Kaikan goshunen kinen tokubetsuten - Kyo no bijinga ten: Koseiha no kyoen: Edo, Meiji, Taisho" (Special exhibition of the fifth anniversary of the opening of the museum - Beauty paintings in Kyoto: Selected representative artists: Edo, Meiji, Taisho periods), 1993.9.10--10.11. 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:

Akai Tatsuro, Sukenobu/Settei, vol. 9 of Nikuhitsu ukiyoe (Ukiyo-e paintings) (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1982), pl. 52. Narazaki Muneshige, "Ganku hitsu kyojo bijinzu" (Beauty on a bridge by Ganku), Kokka 1065 (1983), p. 25. The Museum of Kyoto, ed., Kaikan goshunen kinen tokubetsuten - Kyo no bijinga ten: Koseiha no kyoen: Edo, Meiji, Taisho (Special exhibition of the fifth anniversary of the opening of the museum - Beauty paintings in Kyoto: Selected representative artists: Edo, Meiji, Taisho periods) (Kyoto: The Museum of Kyoto, 1993), pl. 60. 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. 52.