Isoda Koryūsai (礒田湖龍斎) (artist )
Woman with baby climbing out of bathtub (子供を抱いて風呂から上がる女)
ca 1770
4.75 in x 31.375 in (Overall dimensions) Signature: Koryūsai ga (湖龍斎画)
Artist's seal: Unreadable
Publisher: Matsumura Yahei
Marks 312 - seal not listed but close to 15-023 and 025
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - similar, but more discrete Arthur D. Ficke said of Koryūsai: ""Koriusai... 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... he dashes the intense black line of a screen down through the midd"
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A print like this one is listed in Allen Hockley's The Prints of Isoda Koryūsai: Floating World Culture and its Consumers in the Eighteenth-Century Japan, page 249, #E-2. However, the print in the Lyon Collection shows the woman's genitalia or pudenda. Both this print and the one we have linked to in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston are exactly the same, except in the treatment of the crotch. Both show the same Matsumura Yahei publisher's seal. Both show a Genji mon seen behind the woman's left-elbow.
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Andreas Marks does not list Koryūsai as one of the artists published by Matsumura Yahei, but we are confident of this attribution.
Matsumura Yahei (松村弥兵衛) (publisher)
pillar print (hashira-e - 柱絵) (genre)
boshi-e (母子絵) (genre)