Lot Essay
For other impressions see Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Rokkufera ukiyo-e korekushon ten: Yomigaeru bi, hana to tori to (Rockefeller Collection of Ukiyo-e: Revival of Beauty, Flowers and Birds), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Bunyusha, 1985), pl. 72; Tokyo National Museum, ed., vol. 1 of Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku: Ukiyo-e hanga hen/Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1974), no. 3484; and Vignier and Inada, Utamaro..., Estampes Japonaises: Tires des Collection de...et Exposes au Muse des Arts Dcoratifs en Janvier 1912, reprinted in 2 vols., (Geneva: Minkoff Reprint, 1973), pl. LXV, no. 243.