弦屋光溪 Tsuruya Kokei、令和5年(2023)、1枚
木版40×26cm(イメージサイズ)ed.301枚新作 ※掲載画像と限定番号が異なります。 自画・刻・摺 春画を描く浮世絵師三人の新シリーズ第ニ作のモデルは、菱川師宣。 作家より ・艶本「恋のむつごと四十八手」を描く六十二歳頃の師宣です。 ・妻からの床さそいに振り向く図です。 ・生没年は諸説ある様で、没年は元禄7年(1694)77歳の説で制作しました。 ・この艶本は延宝7年(1679)出版で、62歳頃となります。 ・背景には「遊楽でなく、子孫繁栄の教え」とある跋文を写しました。 ・天和3年(1683)出版の挿絵本の自画像は、童顔、丸顔、左手に長キセル、右手に扇子を持つ図で、両手使いと考え、左手に筆を持つ図を描きました。 [Note from the artist] About Hishikawa Moronobu, from the series “Banzai-Ukiyoe San-en” -This is Moronobu drawing the Enpon (illustrated erotic book) “Koi no mutsugoto shijuhatte” at about the age of 62. -The artist is turning to his wife inviting him to bed. -There are various theories about the years of the artist’s birth and death. Here I assume that he died at age 77 in Genroku 7 (1964). -The Enpon was published in Enpo 7 (1679), when Moronobu was about 62 years old. -The writing on the background is an excerpt from the afterword including “not for pleasure, but for prosperity of descendants.” -I referred to his baby-faced self-portrait in a book published in Tenna 3 (1683). Moronobu has a pipe in his left hand and a fan in his right hand there. I had him hold a brush in his left hand here, assuming that he was ambidextrous.