Woman Binding Her Hair and Attendant under Flowering Cherry Tree

Miyagawa ChôshunWW-1700-160803

1700·Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk·24 7/8 x 10 11/16 in. (63.2 x 27.1 cm)

The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936

Catalogue

Year: 1700
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: 24 7/8 x 10 11/16 in. (63.2 x 27.1 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Miyagawa Chôshun

Artist

Miyagawa Chôshun

Painting

Miyagawa Chōshun was a Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style. Founder of the Miyagawa school, he and his pupils are among the few ukiyo-e artists to have never created woodblock prints. He was born in Miyagawa, in Owari Province, but lived much of his later life in Edo, where he died.

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