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ANONYMOUS (most probably Kunisada) |
Hanasaka an Komemori / Komemori of the flower-hermitage.
A courtesan fixing her hairpin while leaning on her headrest. In front of her a pipe and all related objects, like tabacco pouch, flint. Upper right one can read: 1 of 115.
On her kimono all kinds of mons of poetry-clubs amongst: Gogawa Date: c. 1820 Size: koban Very good impression, colours and condition. |
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EIRI, Hosada (act. 1789 – 1800) |
Lovemaking under a mosquito-net.
They are interrupted by ??
Date: c. 1795 Fine impression, very good colours, good condition, some soiling and folds in the paper. |
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HASUI, Kawase (1883 – 1957) |
Kawaguchiko / Lake Kawaguchi.
Mount Fuji seen through pinetrees.
Signed: Hasui with kawase seal. Publisher: Doi Sadaichi (N D-II) Date: Shôwa shichinen gogatsu saku / Work of May 1932. Size: tanzaku 363 x 165 mm Good impression and colours, soiling in the lower margin and on the back. Literature: Hasui nr 279. |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa (1787 - 1858) |
Yoshitsune ichidai zu / Biography of Yoshitsune.
Nr 2 of this rare series.
Yoshitsune learning to fence from the king of the Tengus.
Tengus were mythical creatures, half bird, half human. Signed: Hiroshige ga. Publisher: Hoyeidô. Censor seal: kiwame / c. 1834. Good impression and colours, fairly good condition, soiling in the margins. Together with another, earlier impression that has been heavily restored, but rare to see together. |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa II (1826 – 1869) |
Shichirigahana yûran no zu / Sightseeing at Shichiri beach
Prince Genji riding a black od lead by a female attendant, Enoshima Island at some distance from the coast and to the right Mount Fuji. Signed: ôju Hiroshige ga
Engraver: hori … undeciphered
Publisher: Sagamiya To Censor/date seal: aratame Year of the Monkey 12 (12th month of 1860)
Excellent impression, colours and condition. (some writing on the back) Litt. Bauer collection vol II nr. G 597 |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa II (1826 - 1869) |
Tôto sanjûrokkei / 36 views of Edo.
Saruwakamachi / The Saruwaka District.
Two women looking over the roofs of the district
Signed: Hiroshige ga Publisher: Aito Censor/date seal: Aratame /Year of the Dog 3 (3rd month of 1862). Good, somewhat later impression, good colours and condition. |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa II (1826 - 1869) |
Tôto sanjûrokkei / 36 views of Edo.
Ueno/ Ueno park seen from a roof of a temple
Signed: Hiroshige ga Publisher: Aito Censor/date seal: Aratame /Year of the Dog 3 (3rd month of 1862) Good, somewhat later impression, good colours and condition. |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa II (1826 - 1869) |
Tôto sanjûrokkei / 36 views of Edo.
Ûji Inari / Ôji Inari shrine. The high steps towards the temple.
Signed: Hiroshige ga Publisher: Aito Censor/date seal: Aratame /Year of the Dog 3 (third month of 1862) Good,impression, good colours and condition. |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa II (1826 - 1869) |
Tôto sanjûrokkei / 36 views of Edo.
???goyama/ A view with a lot of kites. Signed: Hiroshige ga Publisher: Aito Censor/date seal: Aratame /Year of the Dog 1 (1st month of 1862) Good, somewhat later impression, good colours and condition. |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa II (1826 - 1869) |
Tôto sanjûrokkei / 36 views of Edo.
Asakusa kinryûzan / Kinryûzan Temple in Asakusa
Signed: Hiroshige ga Publisher: Aito Censor/date seal: Aratame /Year of the Dog 1 (1st month of 1862) Good, somewhat later impression, good colours and condition. |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa II (1826 - 1869) |
Tôto sanjûrokkei / 36 views of Edo.
Shinobazu no ike / Shinobazu Pond. People strolling along the pond. Signed: Hiroshige ga Publisher: Aito Censor/date seal: Aratame /Year of the Dog 3 (3rd month of 1862) Good, somewhat later impression, good colours and condition. |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa II (1843- 1894) |
Tôto sanjûrokkei / 36 views of Edo.
Ryôgokubashi shogakai sekijô / A gathering of painters and calligraphers near Rygôku bridge. Signed: Hiroshige ga. Publisher: Aito. Censor/date seal: Aratame /Year of the Dog 3 (3rd month of 1862). Good, somewhat later impression, good colours and condition. |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa II (1843- 1894) |
Tôto sanjûrokkei / 36 views of Edo.
Yanagishima myôken / The Myôken Shrine at Yanagishima. Signed: Hiroshige ga
Publisher: Aito. Censor/date seal: Aratame /Year of the Dog 5 (5th month of 1862) Good, somewhat later impression, good colours and condition. |
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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa II (1843- 1894) |
Tôto sanjûrokkei / 36 views of Edo.
Nihonbashi /The bridge at Nihon with a procession walking by. Signed: Hiroshige ga. Publisher: Aito. Censor/date seal: Aratame /Year of the Dog 1 (1st month of 1862). Good, somewhat later impression, good colours and condition. |
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HOKKEI, Totoya (1780 – 1850) |
Kokon Kyoka Sen / Ancient and Modern Kyoka Poems
An Oni about to inscribe a Buddhist invocation on a sheet of paper. Signed: Hokkei Seal: Kikô. Date: c. 1830. Good impression, somewhat faded colours, good condition. |
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KÔGYO, Tsukioka (1869 - 1927) |
A rooster and hen among flowering grasses. Signed: Kôgyo. Date: c. 1920 Size: tanzaku Fine impression, colours and condition. |
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KÔKEI, Tsuruya (1946 - …) |
The actor Ichikawa Danjûrô XII as Musashibô Benkei in the play:
Kanjinchô: Subscription List performed during the re-opening of the Meiji-za Theater.
Signed: Seal of Kôkei (seal nr. 35) with number 51.
Date: December 1993
Drawn, carved and printed by the artist himself.
Paper: Ganpi from Kôchi Prefecture.
Wood: Magnolia Obovata
Limited edition of 90.
This is the 145 th print made by the artist.
Fine impression, colours and condition.
Literature: Tsuruya Kôkei: the complete woodblockprints. |
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KÔKEI, Tsuruya (1946 - …) |
The actor Onoe Shôroku II as Kudô Suketsune in: Soga no Taimen,
in the play: Kotobuki Soga no Taimen, performed in the Kabuki-za Theater in Tokyo.
Signed: Seal of Kôkei (seal 17) with the number 24.
Date: January 1989
Drawn, carved and printed by the artist himself.
Paper: Ganpi Tori no Ko paper made in Fukui Prefecture.
Wood: Magnolia Obovata
Limited edition of 90.
This is the 110 th print made by the artist.
Fine impression, colours and condition.
Literature: Tsuruya Kôkei: the complete woodblockprints. |
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KÔKEI, Tsuruya (1946 - …) |
The actor Onoe Baikô as the demon of Ibaraki in the play: Ibaraki, performed in
the Kabuki-za Theater in Tokyo, in May 1993.
Signed: Seal of Kôkei with the number 89.
Date: July 1993
Drawn, carved and printed by the artist himself.
Paper: Ganpi from Kôchi Prefecture.
Wood: Magnolia Obovata
Limited edition of 90.
This is the 143 th print made by the artist.
Fine impression, colours (yellow mica background) and condition.
Literature: Tsuruya Kôkei: the complete woodblockprints. |
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KÔKEI, Tsuruya (1946 - …) |
The actor Kataoka Takao I in the role of the elder brother Teraoka Heiemon in the play:. Kanadehon Chûshingura. This is act 8 :Gion Ichiriki Jaya.
performed in the Kabuki-za Theater in Tokyo. Signed: Tsuru (seal 29) with the number 24. Date: September 1988. Drawn, carved and printed by the artist himself. Paper: Ganpi Tori no Ko paper made in Fukui Prefecture. Wood: Magnolia Obovata. Limited edition of 72. Fine impression, colours (black mica background) and condition. Literature: Tsuruya Kôkei: the complete woodblockprints. |
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KÔKEI, Tsuruya (1946 - …) |
The actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III as the ghost of Iwafuji in the play:
Kagamiyama Gonichi no Iwafuji, performed in the Kabuki-za Theater in Tokyo.
Signed: Seal of Kôkei (seal 17) with number 89.
Date: September 1991. Drawn, carved and printed by the artist himself. Paper: Ganpi Tori no Ko paper made in Fukui Prefecture. Wood: Magnolia Obovata. Limited edition of 90. This is the 129 th print made by the artist.
Fine impression, colours and condition. Literature: Tsuruya Kôkei: the complete woodblockprints. |
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KÔKEI, Tsuruya (1946 - …) |
The actor Bandô Tamasaburô V as the fisher girl Matsukazein the play:
Suma no utsushi-e, performed in the Kabuki-za Theater in Tokyo, in March 1994. Signed: “A work by Kôkei” with the number 26. Date: May 1994. Drawn, carved and printed by the artist himself. Paper: Tosa Ganpi paper from Kôchi Prefecture. Wood: Magnolia Obovata
Limited edition of 90. This is the 148 th print made by the artist. Fine impression, colours (Mica background) and condition. Literature: Tsuruya Kôkei: the complete woodblockprints. |
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KORYUSAI, Torii (act.1764 – 1788) |
Kitsune tsuri / fox catching, a famous play, played by three geisha imitating the play.
Seiro niwaka kyogen zukushi / Comic dance drama's by geisha's of the greenhouses. A fox trap in the foreground. Signed: Kôryusai ga. Publisher: Eijyûdo. Date: c. 1780's Size: chuban. Excellent impression, very good colours and condition (minimally trimmed at the top) For another copy see: Christies: S.C.Ward Collection 1985 |
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KOSON, Ohara (1877 – 1945) |
A small hawk chasing an insect
Signed: Koson Seal: Koson (K.c)
Date: c. 1920 Size: ô-tanzaku. Fine impression, colours, and condition.
Lit. Perrée : Koson K 13.19 |
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KOSON, Ohara (1877 – 1945) |
Wheatear in flight above by insects eaten bamboo-leaves.
A wheatear is a small songbird (Oenathe oenathe)
Signed: Koson Seal: Koson (K.a)
Publisher: Kokkeidô (Akiyama Buemon)
Size: tanzaku (352 x 184 cm)
Date: c. 1900 Fine impession, colours and condition.
Lit. Perrée : Koson K 26.6 |
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KOSON, Ohara (1877 – 1945) |
A cuckoo, a symbol of early summer in Japan in flight through the rain. Signed: Koson Seal: Koson (K.a). Publisher: Kokkeidô (Akiyama Buemon). Size: tanzaku (352 x 184 cm). Date: c. 1900 Fine impession, colours and condition. Litt.: Col. Perrée nr. K 6.2 |
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KÔZAN (dates unknown) |
A fan depicting a gô board with a famous setting.
Signed: Kôzan
Dates unknown. Most probably a design by a gô player.
The fan has been used as a fan and later flattened again. |
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KUNISADA, Utagawa (1786 – 1864) |
Gonin Otoko / Five Chivalrous Commoners
Five different actors in the role of the Five Chivalrous Commoners,
each one with a shakuhashi / bamboo flute in their sash. Signed: Toyokuni ga. Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi Censor / date seal: Mera / 1846 Size: ôban (5 x). Very good impression and colours, good condition, some bleeding-through in two prints, minimal trimming and album-backing. |
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KUNISADA, Utagawa (1786 – 1865) |
Imayo Oshie Kagami / A mirror of fashionable reflections.
Portrait of the actor Sawamura Tanosuke in the female role of Shohi hime. Signed: Toyokuni ga in toshidama seal. Engraver: hori Take (Yokogawa Takejirô) Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) Censor/date seal: Aratame / Year of the Monkey 2 (1860, 2nd month). Fine impression , blindprinting and burnishing, colours, and condition of a deluxe print. |
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KUNISADA, Utagawa (1786 – 1865) |
Imayo Oshie Kagami / A mirror of fashionable reflections.
Portrait of the actor Ichikawa Hazaemon XIII in the role of Tekomae Takekichi. Signed: Toyokuni ga in toshidama seal. Engraver: hori Take (Yokogawa Takejirô) Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) Censor/date seal: aratame / Year of the Ram, 11 (1859, 11th month)
Fine impression, blindprinting and burnishing, colours, and condition of a deluxe print. |
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KUNISADA, Utagawa (1786 – 1865) |
Toyokuni Manga zue / Toyokuni's Caricatures.
The actor Ichimura Uzaemon XIII in the role of Miyanohara Kotaro.
Heavy drums are thrown at him, his kimono is richly decorated with roosters. Signed: Toyokuni ga in toshidama cartouche. Engraver: hori Take. Publisher: Uoya Eikichi. Censor/date seal: aratame / Year of the Monkey (10th month of 1860). Fine “deluxe” impression, colours and condition, minimally trimmed. |
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KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797 - 1861) |
Dai Nippon rokujûyo-shû / The sixty-odd Provinces of Japan.
Nr. 44, Harima. The murder of the maid O-Kiku by her master Ôkuma Tessan. In the inset by Yoshitsuru we see a retainer looking at her departing spirit. Signed: Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga. Publisher: Kagoya Katsugorô Censor/date seal: Watanabe Jiemon (c. 1845). Very good impression and colours, vertical middlefold. |
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KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797 - 1861) |
Mitate hakkei: Yashima no sekishô / A selection for the eight views:
Evening glow at Yashima. Benkei is looking through a telescope at Lady Tamanushi no maye, whose fan, stuck on a pole had been shot down by Nasu no Yoichi, while in the background we can see the battle of Yashima and on the left we see Minamoto Yoshitsune on a horse.
Signed: Ichyôsai Kuniyoshi ga
Publisher: Ibaya Sensaburô Censor/date seal: Murata Heiemon/ 1845 Good impression and colours, a printers fault on the left page, some soiling. |
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MORIKANE, Narita (dates unknown) |
Adesugata nijûshikô – Katsugori / Twenty-four figures of charming women / Relaxing
This is a suggested title. If any of the stories is true about showing red undergarments, then we can assume that this is a geisha looking through an erotic album. Signed: Morikane with seal Publisher: Shinbi-sha
Date: 1931 Very good impression, colours and condition.
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SHIGEHARU, Ryûsei (1803 – 1853) |
A. Fujikawa Tomokichi II as the courtesan Toyama and Onoe Kikugoro III as Shirojiro Motonobu.
B. Sawamura Shirogoro II as Hanyuya Sukeshiro and Onoe Kikugoro III as the courtesan Okiku.
C. Bandô Hikosaburo IV as Muragoshi Ryosuke and Onoe Kikugoro III as Naniwaya Kosuke.
D. Bandô Tamasaburo I as the courtesan Kosan and Onoe Kikugoro III as Kizugawa no Yoemon. Signed: Ryûsai Shigeharu ga. Publisher:Takenouchi Magohachi. Date; 2nd month of 1830. Good impression, fairly good colours and condition, slightly soiled. |
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SHIJO SURIMONO |
A surimono with announcements about No-plays that will be played
in the 5th month of the year ???
An unusual design with a No-mask, a tree and a globe.
Signed: Kankô
Date: c. 1880-1890
Very good impression and colours, the usual folds with this size of surimono. |
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SHUNKO, Katsukawa (1743 - 1812) |
The actor Danjûro V as Kazusa no Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo disguised as a blind court musician (kengyô) in the play: Edo Meisho Midori Soga in the Morita theater. Signed: Shunshô ga. No publisher. Date: 4th month of 1779. Size: 31.5 x 14.9 cm. Excellent impression, slightly faded colours, nice oxhidation of the orange, good condition. Ex. collection: Pasadena Art Museum. Source Frank Lloyd Wright collection, gift of Mrs. R.A.Rowan but wrongly described (as Shunshô). |
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SHUNSEN, Natori (1886 - 1960) |
From the: First series of actor-portraits by Shunsen.
The actor Ichimura Uzaemon XV as Kataoka Naojirô in a Naozamurai role (faithfull samurai). Signed: Natori Shunsen, with seal: Shunsen. Publisher: Watanabe, Shôsaburô. Date: Taisho 14 (1925). Fine impression and colours and condition. |
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SHUNSHÔ, Katsukawa (1726 – 1792) |
A scene from the Ise Monogatari.
A koban series with syllabels. This is yo.
A courtier courting a lady, the sliding doors to the balcony fully open. Signed: Shunshô ga Publisher: Urokogataya Magobei Date: 1771/ 72 Size: between chuban and koban(15.9 x 21.7 cm)Good impression, very good colours, good condition. |
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SHUNSHÔ, Katsukawa (1726 – 1792) |
A scene from the Ise Monogatari.
A koban series with syllabels. This is na.
Three members of the court looking at a waterfall.
Signed: Shunshô ga Publisher: Urokogataya Magobei
Date: 1771/ 72 Size: between chuban and koban(15.9 x 21.7 cm) Good impression, very good colours, good condition. |
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TAKANE, Koko (1902 – 1979) |
Hana no Ame / Showering flower petals.
A woman sheltering for the rain, pink flower-petals also fall from the sky. Signed: Takane Koji hitsu in blindprinting in the left margin. Seal: Koko Publisher: Daireisha Date: c. 1930. Good impression, colours and condition. |
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TOSHIHIDE, Migita (1863 – 1925) |
The large head of Danjûri VII pulling a sword.
A text in his own handwriting above. Signed: Toshihide. Publisher: Akiyama Buemon. Date: Meiji 26 (1893). Fine impression (bokashi and blind-printing), colours and condition, (albumbacking). |
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TOYOKUNI, Utagawa II (1777 – 1835) |
Zensei Matsu no Yosooi / The clothing of Zensei Matsu
A very elegant with her kamuro staring her outing at night, left we see a large lantern. Signed: Gosotei Toyokuni ga. Publisher: Iseya Rihei (act. 1804 – 1848). Censor/date seal:kiwame / c. 1830. Excellent impression, colours and condition. |
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TSUKIMARO (act. ? – 1830) attr. to |
A large ôban shunga abuna-e (the start page of a shunga album) with
a couple starting to make love. Some instruction books on the floor,
her kimono decorated with plovers. Unsigned. Date: c. 1825. Good impression, colours and condition (the usual middlefold) |
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YOSHIDA, Hiroshi (1876 – 1950) |
Hirakawa Bridge. Hirakawa bridge in the moonlight.
Completely in blue’s we see the bridge in the moonlight. Signed in pencil: Hiroshi Yoshida Title of the print in print. Upper left the Jizuri seal (self-printed). Date: 1929. Good impression, colours and condition. |
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YOSHITOSHI, Tsukioka (1839 - 1892) |
Tsuki hyakushi / One hundred aspects of the moon.
Gosechi no myôbu / Lady Goseki.
She plays on the koto and makes her listeners weep.
Signed: Yoshitoshi seal: Taiso. Publisher: Akiyama Buemon. Engraver: Yamamoto Date: 23-6-1887 Excellent impression and colours, very good condition, large paper. Lit.: Stevenson 51. |
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YOSHITOSHI, Tsukioka (1839 - 1892) |
Tsuki hyakushi / One hundred aspects of the moon.
Enchû no tsuki / Moon over smoke.
A fireman overlooks an immmense fire, in the distance we see two collegues on another roof. Signed: Yoshitoshi seal: Taiso. Engraver: Yamamoto Publisher: Akiyama Date: February, 1886. Good impression and colours (a lot of gofun, also on the standard of the firefighter), good condition. Lit.: Stevenson nr. 22 |
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YOSHITOSHI, Tsukioka (1839 - 1892) |
Tsuki hyakushi / One hundred aspects of the Moon.
Oboroyo no tsuki – Kumasaka / Hazy-night moon – Kumasaka. Kumasaka no Chôhan, an outlaw-priest depicted in the costume used in the Noh play called: Kumasaka. Signed: Yoshitoshi seal: Taiso
Engraver: Yamamoto. Publisher: Akiyama Buemon. Date: 6th of January, 1887. Very good impression, colours and condition. This is the darker version of the print, with date indication. Lit.: Stevenson nr. 45 |
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YOSHITOSHI, Tsukioka ( 1839 - 1892) |
Saigyô Takamori seppuku no zu / Saigyô Takamori’s suicide
Takamori looks at a Western ship, something he opposed.
His suicide was not on a ship but on a mountain.
Signed: ôju Taiso Yoshitoshi ga. Seal: Taiso Engraver: horikô Ginjirô
Publisher: Ôkura Magobei Date: Meiji 10, 8th month (September 1877) Good impression, minimally faded colours, good condition, somewhat toned. |
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