Isoda Koryūsai (礒田湖龍斎) (artist )
Young woman under willow in the falling snow
ca 1774
5.1 in x 28.3 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Koryūsai ga (湖龍斎画)
Artist's seal: Masakatsu (unreadable)
In Ukiyo-e Prints and Paintings from the Early Masters to Shunshō: Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art, Genoa by Luigi Bernabò Brea and Eiko Kondo, cat. #198, color illustration pl. XXII b. The authors write: "A young woman with an open umbrella out walking in the snow. Above her, a willow branch. This was evidently inspired by Harunobu's famous print of a young couple in the snow."
Listed in The Prints of Isoda Koryusai... by Allen Hockley, p. 238, Appendix 3, Hashira-e, #5.
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Another copy of this composition sold at auction on September 18, 2013.
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Illustrated in in black and white in The Japanese Pillar Print, Jacob Pins, Roger G. Sawers Publishing, 1982, plate 335, page 161.
"A slender girl, a zukin over her head, is walking under an umbrella in the snow" Pins notes that there was a copy of this print in the Vever collection.
pillar print (hashira-e - 柱絵) (genre)
beautiful woman picture (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)