Lot 368
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UTAMARO: oban tate-e (39.1 x 26.2cm.); six sheets from a polyptych of beauties parodying the procession of a Korean ambassador, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Yamaguchiya Chusuke--very good impressions, generally good color though some pigments slightly faded, some with minor worm holes restored, some with minor moisture stain along the upper edge (6)
UTAMARO: oban tate-e (39.1 x 26.2cm.); six sheets from a polyptych of beauties parodying the procession of a Korean ambassador, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Yamaguchiya Chusuke--very good impressions, generally good color though some pigments slightly faded, some with minor worm holes restored, some with minor moisture stain along the upper edge (6)

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UTAMARO: oban tate-e (39.1 x 26.2cm.); six sheets from a polyptych of beauties parodying the procession of a Korean ambassador, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Yamaguchiya Chusuke--very good impressions, generally good color though some pigments slightly faded, some with minor worm holes restored, some with minor moisture stain along the upper edge (6)

Lot Essay

For another impression see Asano Shugo, and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro (London and Tokyo: British Museum Press and Asahi Shimbun, 1995), pl. 285.