Miyagawa Choshun Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Miyagawa Choshun Art Value Price Guide

Dec. 17, 2023
MIYAGAWA CHOSHUN ONE DAY IN SPRING WOODBLOCK REPRO
Est: $100 - $200
Miyagawa Choshun (Japanese, 1583-1753) "One Day In Spring" Woodblock reproduction depicting dual interior and outdoor scenes, with several people enjoying a spring day. Set under glass in black frame / Visible Art Size: 5.5"H x 11"W / Frame Size: 10"H x 15.5"W
Dargate Auction Galleries
Jun. 07, 2022
Miyagawa Chōshun (1683-1753) A rare and important nanshoku (male-male) shunga handscroll Edo period (1615-1868), early 18th century
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
Miyagawa Chōshun (1683-1753) A rare and important nanshoku (male-male) shunga handscroll Edo period (1615-1868), early 18th century In ink and colors on silk, depicting ten scenes of lovemaking, each between an older man and a younger samurai dressed in female apparel and with a female hairstyle, five of them with a third person present (respectively, another young man playing a shamisen; a young male servant with a tray of smoking utensils; a second naked younger man who embraces the older man as he penetrates his other partner from behind; a female voyeur who observes the couple from behind a screen; and a fully-clothed young samurai who stands over the couple as they relax under a futon [quilt] after intercourse), the fifth to ninth scenes more explicit than the others; signed in two places: once on a screen forming part of the penultimate scene Hishikawa Chōshun hitsu (brushed by Hishikawa Chōshun) with an abbreviated seal and a second time at the end of the scroll Hishikawa Chōshun hitsu with seals Chōshun no in (seal of Chōshun) and Hishikawa-shi no in (seal of Hishikawa) 10 3/4 x 137 3/8 in. (27.2 x 340 cm.) For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
May. 08, 2021
AN ANTIQUE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK MIYAGAWA CHOSHUN
Est: $100 - $150
Japanese woodblock by Miyagawa Choshun (1683-1753). Printed in 1900 by Bunshichi. Framed.
Antique Arena Inc
Oct. 21, 2020
MIYAGAWA CHŌSHUN (Miyagawa, Japón, 1683 - Edo, Japón, 1753) Título: "Las siete bellezas en el bosque
Est: -
MIYAGAWA CHŌSHUN (Miyagawa, Japón, 1683 - Edo, Japón, 1753) Título: "Las siete bellezas en el bosque de bambúes, realizada por Mitsu-Tane. Inspiración de la obra -Siete sabios pensadores en el bosque de bambúes-" Kakemono pintado a mano 185x53 cm Mitsu-Tane formó parte de la Escuela Miyagawa.
Arte Subastas Bilbao
Dec. 04, 2016
Japanese 4-Panel Floor Screen, Tea Garden Scene
Est: $200 - $400
Style of Miyagawa Choshun (Japanese, 1682-1752). A 20th century Japanese four-panel folding floor screen in the style of great Edo Period ukiyo-e master, Miyagawa Choshun, depicting a tea garden scene with white-faced geishas meandering past stylized trees, rocks and cherry blossoms before an elaborate pavilion, with muted gold metallic background, with with two fabric borders within ebonized wood frame, the frame accented with incised metal adornments, the screen signed to lower left with additional red insignia. Each panel approximately 48" x 24.5"; overall approximately 48" x 98".
Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.
Oct. 16, 2016
Japanese 4-Panel Floor Screen, Tea Garden Scene
Est: $400 - $600
Style of Miyagawa Choshun (Japanese, 1682-1752). A 20th century Japanese four-panel folding floor screen in the style of great Edo Period ukiyo-e master, Miyagawa Choshun, depicting a tea garden scene with white-faced geishas meandering past stylized trees, rocks and cherry blossoms before an elaborate pavilion, with muted gold metallic background, with with two fabric borders within ebonized wood frame, the frame accented with incised metal adornments, the screen signed to lower left with additional red insignia. Each panel approximately 48" x 24.5"; overall approximately 48" x 98".
Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.
Mar. 16, 2016
MIYAGAWA CHOSHUN (1683-1753) A RARE AND IMPORTANT NANSHOKU (MALE-MALE) SHUNGA HANDSCROLL Edo period (1615-1868)
Est: $35,000 - $45,000
MIYAGAWA CHOSHUN (1683-1753) A RARE AND IMPORTANT NANSHOKU (MALE-MALE) SHUNGA HANDSCROLL Edo period (1615-1868), early 18th century Handscroll, ink and colors on silk, depicting ten scenes of lovemaking, each between an older man and a younger samurai dressed in female apparel and with a female hairstyle, five of them with a third person present (respectively, another young man playing a shamisen; a young male servant with a tray of smoking utensils; a second naked younger man who embraces the older man as he penetrates his other partner from behind; a female voyeur who observes the couple from behind a screen; and a fully-clothed young samurai who stands over the couple as they relax under a futon [quilt] after intercourse), the fifth to ninth scenes more explicit than the others; signed in two places: once on a screen forming part of the penultimate scene Hishikawa Choshun hitsu (brush of Hishikawa Choshun) with an abbreviated seal and a second time at the end of the scroll Hishikawa Choshun hitsu with seals Choshun no in (seal of Choshun) and Hishikawa-shi no in (seal of Hishikawa) 10 3/4 x 137 3/8in (27.2 x 340cm) Published Richard Lane, Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print, Secaucus NJ, Chartwell Books, 1978, pp.89-90 and plate 83; the second of the ten scenes shown here, captioned gRake with Catamites. Detail from a handscroll in colors on silk, ca. early 1700s (late Genroku Period). Signature (at end of scroll) Hishikawa [not Miyagawa] Ch.shun hitsu, with seals.h Tsuneo Watanabe and Junfichi Iwata (D.R. Roberts trans.), The Love of the Samurai: A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality, London, GMP, 1989, coveer and pp. 137-145; a note on p.11 states that gThis is the first time that these magnificent works have been published euncensoredf, by courtesy of Dr. Richard Lane.h As noted by Professor Timon Screech, it would appear that during the Edo period (1615-1868), gfheterosexualf and ehomosexualf were not fixed distinct human types, rather they were understood as activities.h This was perhaps especially true during the earlier part of the period, as depicted in the fiction of Ihara Saikaku whose famous novel Koshoku ichidai otoko (Life of a Sex-Mad Man), published in 1682 (not long before the likely date of this painting), describes the activity of the hero Yonosuke who g . . . sleeps with 3,752 women and 725 men (not including the uncounted men with whom he had affairs before he reached adulthood).h Screech observes that just like the fictional Yonosuke, many prominent real-life figures of the time, including not only shoguns and their courtiers but also cultural superstars such as the haiku poet Basho g. . . routinely slept with other men, as well as (in most cases) with womenh. (Timon Screech, Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820, second edition, London, Reaktion Books, 2009, pp. 93-94). Despite this seeming acceptance of male-male coupling, painted images of erotic encounters between males are exceptionally rare in Japanese art, even during the Edo period. Those paintings th at have survived, mostly from the decades around 1700, generally depict sex between ga mature man who is the active partner and a youth who receives his favours,h and this same tendency is seen in later woodblock-printed male-sex manuals such as Nanshoku hana no sugao (Male Love: Actors W ithout their Make-Up), from the later eighteenth century, where again g...the older man invariably [takes] the active role in all sexual encounters and the younger man the passive roleh (Timothy Clark, Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art, London, British Museum, 2013, pp. 20-21 and 443). The present scroll fits broadly within this paradigm although there is one scene (the fourth, featuring an abandoned game of go) wher e the first move is apparently made by the effeminately dressed wakashu (young man), another where the younger man attends to the coiffure of his sleeping partner using a pair of tweezers, and a threesome which seems to presage active lovemaking by a second younger man. This scroll, a rare and precious survival and an important rediscovery, has been virtually unseen since the 1970s when just one of its scenes was illustrated by maverick ukiyo-e scholar Richard Lane in his encyclopedic publication Images from the Floating World. Lane regarded the artist, Miyagawa Choshun, as a neglected genius, but Choshun’s stock has risen steadily over the past 40 years, helped by publications such as the Museum of Fin e Arts, Boston’s Drama and Desire, which features four masterpieces by Choshun from the museum’s unequalled collection of ukiyo-e painting (Anne Nishimura Morse ed., Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World, 1690-1850, Boston, MFA Publications, 2007, cat. nos. 11-14). Since Choshun designed no woodblock prints or illustrated books that might have provided dates of publication, the details of his career are obscure but efforts have been made to gr oup his works into three periods, one determining factor (as noted in the British Museum’s online essay on the artist) being the degr ee of stylistic influence from the early ukiyo-e master Hishikawa Mor onobu (d. 1694). The present scroll, a striking instance of that influence, even bears signatures where the artist’s usual surname Miyagawa (taken from the name of his birthplace) is twice r eplaced by Hishikawa, indicating that Choshun saw himself as the stylistic heir of Moronobu, even though he was too young to have actually studied with him.
Bonhams
May. 03, 2015
Edo Pd. Pleasure District Screen, Miyagawa (Attr.)
Est: $10,000 - $20,000
Attributed to Miyagawa Choshun (Japanese, 1682-1752). "Pleasure District", two panel folding screen with ink and color on paper, apparently unsigned. Panoramic painting depicting a view from outside into a Japanese pleasure district structure with many figures, possibly Yoshiwara in modern day Tokyo, from left a vibrantly painted green tree set before a with two female courtesans to a riser being approached by two men, one being a samurai who rests his hands atop the platform in approach of a woman as two more male figures stand beside the open doorway peering in at the scene, the next room over viewed through a vertically slatted wall, the room with a green floor holding many geisha, many of whom play stringed instruments while others engage with men through the wall with one man at left smoking an opium pipe, the room to right with several men at the open wall, one atop an opium bed smoking a pipe and two engaging with women through the wall as two more men approach the scene, the final room to right with two couples, one to a bench with the woman leaning toward the man and her hand covering her mouth, the other with the woman holding a fan to her face as she guides the man away from the crowd, another group of three figures standing just in front of the structure with a woman beside two men pointing them toward the geishas. Overall approximately 22" x 63.5". Painting approximately 15" x 54".
Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.
May. 29, 2013
Miyagawa Choshun (1682-1752) of navolger,
Est: €800 - €1,000
Miyagawa Choshun (1682-1752) of navolger, 'Musicerend en dansend gezelschap in een tuin', scroll, Japan. Afm. (schildering) 107 x 42 cm.
Zeeuws Veilinghuis
Mar. 23, 2011
Miyagawa Choshun (1682-1752)
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Miyagawa Choshun (1682-1752) Kikujido (Chrysanthemum Boy) Signed Miyagawa Choshun zu, sealed Choshun no in Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk 29½ x 13¾in. (75 x 34.9cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 22, 2005
Miyagawa Choshun (1682-1752: front) and Tosa school (18th Century: verso)
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
Beauties and Manzai dancers (front); Thirty-six Immortal Poets and their poems (verso) Each signed Yamatoe Miyagawa Choshun zu, sealed Choshun no in (front); each painting sealed (verso) Six paintings mounted as a six-panel screen; ink, color and gold on silk (front); Twelve shikishi paintings of poets and thirty-six shikishi poems in calligraphy mounted as a six-panel screen; ink, color and gold on silk (painting) or ink, gold wash and gold leaf on paper (calligraphy) (verso) 30 3/4 x 13in. (78.1 x 33cm.) each (front); 6 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (17.5 x 16.5cm.) each (verso)
Christie's