Artist
Tōsendō Rifū
(東川堂里風; fl. ca. 1730)
Catalogue information
Edo period, ca. 1720
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
71.1 x 33.5 cm (28 x 13 1/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Frank E. Hart
Literature
Jenkins 1971, no. 125.
1971
Ukiyo-e Prints and Paintings: The Primitive Period, 1680–1745. Exh. cat. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 251 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
As though this painted figure could speak, / its colors remind me of her fragrance.
Signature
Inscribed by Kamo Suketame
[d. 1801]
Seals
Two illegible seals