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.