Japanese Woodblock Print Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai) (Japanese, 1764–1824)

Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai) ^[1] (Japanese, 1764–1824

Partridges (Shako) and Rapids, reprinted from the album Kaihaku raikin zui (A Compendium of Pictures of Birds Imported from Overseas)

Date:  Later edition, with added signatures and seals, of designs from an album first published in 1789 and reprinted in 1793.

DIMENSIONS: Horizontal ôban; 26 x 38.5 cm (10 1/4 x 15 3/16 in.)

Reference:

https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/210209 ^[2]

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/233467 ^[3]

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美: Pied Wagtail, Lotus and Iris Plants ^[4]

 

CATALOGUE RAISONNÉRISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #229 (first edition?) and #232 (this edition); Keyes, The Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat.), vol. 2 (1985), p. 434, #16 (first edition)