TEISAI HOKUBA (1771-1844) A Beauty on a Boat Viewing the Moon Edo period (1615-1868), Bunsei era (1818-30)Property from a private New York collectionTEISAI HOKUBA (1771-1844)A Beauty on a Boat Viewing the Moon Edo period (1615-1868), Bunsei era (1818-30)A hanging scroll painting in ink, color, and gold on silk, depicting a beauty with sumptuous obi sash staring up at the moon while aboard a small boat, other boats and structures in the distance, signed Teisai and sealed HokubaWith a wood storage box 37 1/4 x 14 1/8in (94.3 x 35.9cm)ProvenanceWilliam Sturgis Bigelow (1850-1926)Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art, by reputePublishedAzabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozō (Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art), introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, Azabu Museum of Art; Osaka, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1988, pl. 83Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan, Tokyo, Kōdansha, 1995, pl. 65.Nagata Seiji, Iki no bi, ukiyo-e (The Beauty of Chic, Ukiyo-e), vol. 7 of Meiga to deau bijutsukan, Tokyo, Shōgagakukan, 1992, color pl. p. 40.Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e 3: Kasei-Meiji (Ukiyo-e Painting 3: Kasei Era to Meiji Period), Nihon no bijutsu 3, no. 250, Tokyo, Shibundō, 1987, pl. 14.Yamanaka and Company, Ko Bigerō-shi iaihin: Ukiyo-e oyobi Shijōha gafuku nyūsatsu (Collection of the Late Dr. Bigelow: Auction of Ukiyo-e and Shijō-School Painting), Tokyo, Tōkyō Bijutsu Kurabu (Tokyo Art Club), December 11, 1933, no. 134.Exhibited"Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozō (Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art)" shown atSendai City Museum, June 11-July 17, 1988; Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, September 6-October 9, 1988; Sogo Museum, Yokohama, October 20-November 13, 1988