UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37.7 x 285cm.); an okubi-e portrait of a courtesan below an inset fan cartouche of women pounding mochi on the banks of the Chofu river, the Chofu jewel river from the series Mutamagawa "Six Jewel rivers", signed Utamaro hitsu, the background paper blind-printed with mallets and rippling water--good impression, slightly faded, some tiny worm holes repaired with backing

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UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37.7 x 285cm.); an okubi-e portrait of a courtesan below an inset fan cartouche of women pounding mochi on the banks of the Chofu river, the Chofu jewel river from the series Mutamagawa "Six Jewel rivers", signed Utamaro hitsu, the background paper blind-printed with mallets and rippling water--good impression, slightly faded, some tiny worm holes repaired with backing

Lot Essay

This is the second state with the publisher's seal of Matsumura Tatsuemon removed and replaced by railing and the loose hair on her forehead also removed. For the first state see Asano and Clark, The passionate art of Kitagawa Utamaro (London/Tokyo: British Museum Press/Asahi Shimbun, 1995), pl. 247