- Museum number
- 1982,0701,0.6.1-10
- Description
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Painting, folding album. Ten abbreviated sketches on miscellaneous subjects:
1: Dancer.
2: Man dreaming of pleasure quarters.
3: (?)Chinese with elephant in procession.
4: Iwafuji striking Onoe with sandal, from Kabuki play 'Kagamiyama kokyo no nishiki-e'.
5: Shinto priest dancing.
6: Woman with parcel walking past large lantern in street.
7: Sukeroku with his umbrella, seen from behind.
8: Blossoming cherry trees on riverbank.
9: Third Princess's cat running out from under blind.
10: Bust portrait of courtesan as Daruma.
Ink and colour on paper. Annotated.
- Production date
- 1830-1860
- Dimensions
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Height: 23.50 centimetres
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Length: 32.70 centimetres (opening)
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Width: 16.60 centimetres (closed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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See Jack Hillier, 'The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Drawings', vol. 2 (Lund Humphries, 1970), no. 183.
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Clark 1992
The postscript to the album by one 'Houdo shujin', dated October 1892, explains that his father had been fond of painting and had studied with Hiroshige and that he had found these sheets of paintings by the master preserved at the bottom of a chest and had them bound into an album. Though unsigned, the ten abbreviated sketches are certainly in Hiroshige's most convivial style, and other versions of several of the compositions bearing a Hiroshige seal are in the collections of the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Freer Gallery of Art (eds), 'The Freer Gallery of Art II: Japan', Tokyo, Kodansha, n.d. (?1972), no. 66) and Library of Congress (Lee 1984, vol. II, pls 4, 11, 19), confirming the attribution. It was customary for teachers to make copies, often unsigned, of previously worked-out compositions for pupils to use as study material ('tehon'). The ten subjects in the album are:
1 Sambaso dancer.
2 Man dreaming of pleasure quarters.
3 (?)Chinese with an elephant in a procession.
4 Iwafuji striking Onoe with the sandal, from the Kabuki play 'Kagamiyama kokyo no nishiki-e' (illustrated).
5 Shinto priest dancing.
6 Woman with a parcel walking past a large lantern in the street. (?)Ohatsu, the faithful maid.
7 Sukeroku with his umbrella, seen from behind.
8 Blossoming cherry trees on riverbank.
9 The Third Princess's cat running out from under a blind.
10 Bust portrait of a courtesan as Daruma.
Literature:
Hillier, Jack. 'Hokusai Drawings'. London, Phaidon, 1966, pls 64, 66.
Hillier, Jack, 'The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Prints'. Vol. 2, London, Lund Humphries, 1970, no. 183.
Hillier, Jack. 'Japanese Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries'. Washington, DC, International Exhibitions Foundation, 1980, no. 121.
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Asahi 1996
“芳宇堂”なる人物が明治25年（1892）に画帖の後書きに記したところでは、彼の父が絵が好きで広重について絵を学んでいた。芳宇堂は広重が描いた本図が箱の底に眠っていたのを見つけ、画帖に仕立てたという。書名はないが、この10枚の略画風の作品は確かに広重の席画の様式である。広重の印章を持つ、よく似た他の作品は何点か、フリーア美術館（Freer Gallery of Art (eds) ‘The Freer Gallery of Art II: Japan’, Tokyo, Kodansha n.d. (?1972), no.66）や米国議会図書館（Lee, Sherman E. ‘The Sketchbooks of Hiroshige’ 2 Vols, New York, George Braziller, 1984）の蔵品など知られるので、本作品も広重の手になるものであろう。師匠が弟子の使う手本として、以前に描いた作品の模写を作ることはよくあることで、署名はないのが普通である。画帖の全10図の主題は次のとおりである。
（伊藤紫織（千葉市美術館））
1：三番叟
2：夢で吉原に遊ぶ男
3：象を連れた中国人（？）行列
4：歌舞伎狂言「加賀見山旧錦絵」の岩藤が尾上を草履でうつところ
5：舞を舞う神官
6：常夜灯の脇を通り過ぎる包みを抱えた女。尾上の忠実な下女お初か？
7：傘を持った後ろ向きの助六
8：土手の桜花
9：御簾の下から逃げる女三宮の猫
10：見立達磨遊女大首絵
（伊藤紫織（千葉市美術館））
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Kagamiyama kokyo no nishiki-e 加賀見山旧錦絵 (4)
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Associated Title: Sonezaki shinju 曽根崎心中 (6?)
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Associated Title: Sukeroku, yukari no Edo zakura (Sukeroku, the Flower of Edo) (6)
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1982,0701,0.6.1-10
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.Add.691 (Japanese Painting Additional Number)
