SHUNMAN and KYŌDEN. On the road to Ise shrine. (Sold)
Artist:
Kubo Shunman (1757-1820) and Santo Kyōden (1761-1816)
Subject:
Poets and pilgrims on the road to Ise shrine.
Description:
A rare surimono made in collaboration by two leading artists of their time. On the right Santo Kyōden, famous writer and illustrator, also known as Kitao Masanobu, signed the image of the two samisen players under a hut, while on the left Shunman depicts the other figures.
Signature:
Shōsadō Shunman ga and Santō Kyōden ga
Date:
1800 circa
Size:
Long surimono, 25,5x55 cm.
Medium:
Woodblock color print
Literature:
Other two impressions are illustrated in the sale catalog, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Japanese Colour Prints, London, 25-27 March 1912, lot no. 31 and in McKee, Daniel. Colored in the year's new light : Japanese surimono from the Becker Collection. Ithaca 2008, no. 60.
Remarks:
According Daniel McKee this is an important surimono with poems by twenty-two poets, many of them major figures in the kyōka world.
Conditions:
Good impression an color, slightly rubbed otherwise general good condition.
Item no:
D 455
Status:
Sold