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Settei (1710 - 1786)

Yoshitsune and Lady Shizuka at Horikawa Mansion

Medium: Painting
Date: c. 1780
Size (H x W): 70.5 x 22 (inches)
Signature: Hogen Tsukioka Settei oju sha
Condition: Very good condition, faint creasing on painting, small tears on top left of mounting. Ink painting mounted on silk embellished with with gold-thread embroidery.
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Description

This painting was published in vol.6 of Kobyashi's Nikuhitsu Ukiyo-e Taikan (1995). The full citation can be found below.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 59.

About the artist

Settei Tsukioka was a ukiyo-e artist born in Omi Province. Settei studied painting in Osaka with Keiho Takada in the style of the Kano school. He was strongly influenced by the work of the ukiyo-e artist Sukenobu Nishikawa. By 1762, Settei had produced over fifty illustrated books. From then onwards, he started painting hanging scrolls of beauties, which he best known for today.