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

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, 27th December 1990 - 8th January 1991

Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24th - 29th January 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 between her fingers, 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. The central cartouche contains a spray of tiger lily.

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.