Ukiyo-e Prints

浮世絵版画

Port Townsend, Washington

ISODA KORYŪSAI

礒田湖龍斎

いそだこりゅうさい

Active 1760-1783

Type: Pillar print

Hashira-e

柱絵

はしらえ

Date: 1770s

Publisher: Unknown

Signature: Koryūsai ga

Size: 26 1/4" x 4 7/8"

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REFERENCES

1. The Japanese Pillar Print: Hashira-e, by Jacob Pins, Robert G. Sawers Publishing, 1982, p. 190, ill. #446.

2. Chats on Japanese Prints, by Arthur D Ficke, 1915, p. 168. "He [Koryūsai] is the supreme master of the pillar print; no one else has produced so many fine ones, and practically all his finest work is in this form...In one print (Pl.17), he dashes the intense black line of a screen down through the middle of his picture and sets the delicate eddies of a child's and a young girl's garments playing around its base."

The second reference by Ficke was sent to us by our generous contributor E. For this we owe him a debt of gratitude.

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