Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Lot 1. STREET SCENE IN THE YOSHIWARA

    Image of actual item from Metropolitan Museum of Art MORONOBU (B. 1625, d. 1694) In the Tenna Period, immediately preceding the Genroku. Guests in the tea-houses are seen dimly through the curtains of bamboo strips; many people are passing along the street in front. Yoko-e. Ink print from a folding album. Not signed. These albums…

    Lot 1. STREET SCENE IN THE YOSHIWARA
  • Lot 7. ICHIMURA KAMEZO AS ISE NO SABURO

    Image of actual item from the Metropolitan Museum of Art TORII KIYOMASU (B. 1702 (?), d. 1763) The name of the drama has not been learned. Hoso-e. Beni-e. Signed: Torii Kiyomasu hitsu. Publisher: Iga-ya. About 1748. Purchaser: Metropolitan Museum of Art Price: $17.50 |

    Lot 7. ICHIMURA KAMEZO AS ISE NO SABURO
  • Lot 8. SCENE FROM A DRAMA

    Image of actual item from the Metropolitan Museum of Art TORII KIYOMASU (B. 1702 (?), d. 1763) Ichimura Kamezo as Hirano-ya Tokubei: Arashi Tominosuke as Tenma-ya Ohatsu. Hoso-e. Beni-e. Signed: Torii Kiyomasu hitsu. Publisher: Iga-ya. Fine impression, but colors much faded. About 1748. Purchaser: Metropolitan Museum of Art Price: $27.50 |

    Lot 8. SCENE FROM A DRAMA
  • Lot 9. SCENE FROM THE DRAMA “HATSU-TORA KURAMA GENJI”

    Image of actual item from the Metropolitan Museum of Art TORII KIYOMASU (B. 1702 (?), d. 1763) Ichimura theatre, Edo, first month Kwan-en 2, i.e. February 1749. Onoe Kikugoro as Goyo-no-mae, wife of Suzuki; the first Sanogawa Ichimatsu as Ushiwaka. Hoso-e. Beni-e. Signed: Torii Kiyomasu hitsu. Publisher: Maru-ya. 1749. Purchaser: Metropolitan Museum of Art Price:…

    Lot 9. SCENE FROM THE DRAMA “HATSU-TORA KURAMA GENJI”
  • Lot 33. THE FIRST NAKAMURA SUKEGORO

    Image of actual item from the Metropolitan Museum of Art TORII KIYOHIRO (B. —-, d.1776) A noted actor of the second quarter of the eighteenth century as (?) Omi Kotoda in “Kiku wa Mukashi Soga Monogatari,” Ichimura theatre, 1746. Hoso-e. Beni-e. Signed: Torii Kiyohiro hitsu. Publisher: Urukogata-ya. Purchaser: Metropolitan Museum of Art Price: $15.00 |

    Lot 33. THE FIRST NAKAMURA SUKEGORO
  • Lot 73. AN ENTERTAINMENT AT SHINAGA

    Image of actual item from the Metropolitan Museum of Art SAKURAI BUNKYO (Probably a pupil of Kiyonaga) Three women in a house overlooking Edo bay, one of them bringing a tray with bowls of food: all are looking toward the left. Chuban. One sheet of a triptych. Signed: Bunkyo ga. Purchaser: Metropolitan Museum of Art…

    Lot 73. AN ENTERTAINMENT AT SHINAGA
  • Lot 92. CHOFU NO TAMAGAWA

    Image of actual item from the Metropolitan Museum of Art UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI (B. 1769, d. 1825) Two young women and a small boy on the banks of the Chofu Tama river. One woman is standing, and the other is seated beside a large wooden tub used for pounding clothes as a part of the washing…

    Lot 92. CHOFU NO TAMAGAWA