Isoda Koryusai (1735-1790) | Cockerels (Niwatori) | Edo period, 18th century
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Isoda Koryusai (1735-1790)
Cockerels (Niwatori)
Edo period, 18th century
woodblock print, from the series Fashionable Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Furyu junishi), depicting two cockerels among peonies and maize, signed Koryu ga (Pictured by Koryu), circa 1773-75; with collectors' seals of Henri Vever and Gerhard Pulverer
Vertical hosoban: 31.9 x 14.2 cm., 12½ x 5½ in.
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Isoda Koryusai (1735-1790), Coqs de bruyère, époque Edo, XVIIIe siècle
Henri Vever (1854-1942)
Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, 26 March 1974, Lot 80.
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
C. Vignier, T. Inada & R. Koechlin, Harunobu, Koriusaï, Shunsho
(Paris, 1910), no. 419, pl. 46.
Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), no. 21.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 30, no. 1-25.
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Harunobu, Koriusaï, Shunsho, January 1910.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection], exhibited at the following venues:
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Osaka, 27th December 1990 - 8th January 1991
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24th - 29th January 1991
Another print from the series depicting the dog sign from the Chinese zodiac is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 21.8235.