Lot 221: Asami Shoei (Matsue) (1886-1969)

Ichiyo jo (Ms. Ichiyo [Higuchi Ichiyo])
Signed Matsue and sealed
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
54 7/8 x 50 3/8in. (139.5 x 128cm.)

Hosokawa Rikizo Collection
Meguro Gajoen Museum of Art, Tokyo

Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896) is the first major woman writer in modern Japan. In a brief life of illness and poverty she was spectacularly productive, writing over 4,000 poems, 21 short stories and two novels. Her work is set in the slums and red-light districts of Tokyo, where she lived.

This lot is offered without reserve.