Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

Hosoda Eishi (1756-1829) | The courtesan Morokoshi of the Echizenya house | Edo period, late 18th century

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Hosoda Eishi (1756-1829)

The courtesan Morokoshi of the Echizenya house

Edo period, late 18^th century

woodblock print, embellished with silver mica to the collar and embossing on the white sash and inner robe, from the series Beauties of the Yoshiwara as Six Floral Immortals (Seiro bijin Rokkasen), signed Eishi zu (Pictured by Eishi), censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), circa 1794-5; with collector's seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso

Vertical oban: 35.6 x 24.7 cm., 14 x 9¾ in.

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Hosoda Eishi (1756-1829), La courtisane Morokoshi, époque Edo, fin XVIIIe siècle

Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection], exhibited at the following venues:

Matsuzakaya Department Store, Osaka, 27^th December 1990 - 8^th January 1991

Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24^th - 29^thJanuary 1991

Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), no. 50.

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 42, no. 1-53.

With brush in hand, the seated courtesan Morokoshi rests her head in her hand as she ponders over the composition of a poem. Poetry slips (tanzaku) rest on a red lacquer table beside a stack of books.

Other impressions of the same print are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.14040, the British Museum, museum number 1945,1101,0.23, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, accession number EA1970.111.

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