5212 - 5421 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS
- Trimmed within border of image w. loss of publishing information and part of signature.
Kunisada (1786-1865). Bijin keisei iroha tanka: ri (ABC of Poems and Beautiful Courtesans: syllable ri). Col. woodcut ôban, signed Okonomi ni tsuki Kunisada-ga, publisher Yamaguchiya Tôbei, w. kiwame seal, ±1810-1830.
- Trimmed within border of image; trifle soiled along right edge.
AND 1 other by KUNIYOSHI.
- Trimmed within image; (sl.) rubbed; wormholed spot and paperflaws along left edge.
AND 1 similar by the same.
- Trifle dam.
Hirosada (act. 1819-1863). (Tales of One Hundred Renowned Heroes: Takechi Mitsuhide). Col. woodcut chûban, not signed, publisher unknown.
- Slightly soiled.
- Both panels w. paper flaw; trifle/ sl. soiled.
Idem. (Woman under a blossoming tree watching two men climb off a balcony). Col. woodcut chûban, signed Yoshitaki-ga, n.publ., w. single aratame-date seal (difficult to read), 1871(?).
- Doubled w. Japanese; left margin cut sl. short; w. vertical fold-lines in the centre and along left margin.
= Possibly the right panel of a dyptich.
- Trimmed to the image; soiled; backed w. thin Japanese paper.
= Part of a series of similar prints, Land of the little people. With a collector's mark on verso.
- Two lvs. pasted together and doubled w. Japanese; sm. closed wormhole in the centre along top; w. a few brown spots, otherwise fine.
- Slightly foxed; under passepartout.
= From the series Fûzoku sanjûni-sô (Thirty-two aspects of customs and manners), depicting women from the Kansei era (1789-1800) to the Meiji era (1860-1912) of different backgrounds and occupations, each associated with a particular mood or character trait. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.


















