YOSHITOSHI  (1839-1892). A lady with cat. (Sold)

YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892). A lady with cat. (Sold)

Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Subject: A lady reading with a cat sleeping on kotatsu.
Title: Attaka-so: Kansei nenkan choka goke no fuzoku (Looking warm: the appearance of an urban widow of the Kansei era)
Series: Fuzoku sanjuniso (Thirty-two aspects of customs and manners).
Signature: Yoshitoshi. Artist's seal Taiso.
Date: Meiji 21 (1888)
Publisher: Tsunashima Kamekichi.
Block-cutter: Wada Hori Yu
Size: Ōban tate-e, 37x25,3 cm.
Medium: Woodblock color print
Literature: Another example is illustrated in John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi’s women The woodblock print series “Fuzoku sanjuniso”, Boulder 1986, no. 32.
Remarks: This impression illustrated in the exhibition catalog by Maureen de Vries, “Neko. De kat in Japanse kunst” (Neko. The Cat in Japanese Art) Japanmuseum Sieboldhuis, Leiden 2020, no. 23
Conditions: Very good impression, colour and conditions.
Item no: B 186
Status: Sold