Saturday 31 March 2018

Hideyoshi and his Five Wives Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Higashiyama

Kitagawa Utamaro Collection

Hideyoshi and his Five Wives Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Higashiyama 

(Taiko gosai rakuto yukan no zu) 

PUBLISHED BY: c. 1803/04
FORMAT: Color woodblock print; oban triptych 36.6 x 73.5 cm
CARVER: Kagaya
NOTES: Also known as Kanji : 太閤五妻洛東遊観之図 Series Kanji : None
Toyotomi Hideyoshi at flower-viewing party with his wife (Kita no Mandokoro), concubines (Lady Kana, Lady Sanjo, Ishida Mitsunari, Lady Matsu no Maru, Okoi-no-kata, Lady Yodo) and attendants.
Signed: (printed) Utamaro hitsu
In the early summer of 1804, artists Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?–1806), Kitagawa Tsukimaro (act. 1794–1836), Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Katsukawa Shuntei (1770–1820) and Katsukawa Shun'ei (1762–1819), the writer Jippensha Ikku (1765–1831) and their publishers were punished for representing sixteenth-century warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi in commercial prints.






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