Lot 428
428
KUNIYOSHI: oban yoko-e (26.8 x 37.1cm.); Shin Yoshiwara (New Yoshiwara), from the series Toto meisho (Famous places of the eastern capital), signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Kagaya Kichibei, with green bamboo borders--fine impression and color, margins slightly soiled, faint vertical center crease, a few minute worm holes
KUNIYOSHI: oban yoko-e (26.8 x 37.1cm.); Shin Yoshiwara (New Yoshiwara), from the series Toto meisho (Famous places of the eastern capital), signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Kagaya Kichibei, with green bamboo borders--fine impression and color, margins slightly soiled, faint vertical center crease, a few minute worm holes

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KUNIYOSHI: oban yoko-e (26.8 x 37.1cm.); Shin Yoshiwara (New Yoshiwara), from the series Toto meisho (Famous places of the eastern capital), signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Kagaya Kichibei, with green bamboo borders--fine impression and color, margins slightly soiled, faint vertical center crease, a few minute worm holes

Lot Essay

For other impressions see Suzuki Juzo, Kunisada/Kuniyoshi/Eisen, vol. 10 of Ukiyo-e taikei (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1974), pl. 28; Suzuki, Kuniyoshi (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1992), pl. 14; and Vignier and Inada, Utamaro..., Estampes Japonaises: Tires des Collection de...et Exposes au Muse des Arts Janvier 1912, reprinted in 2 vols., (Geneva: Minkoff Reprint, 1973), pl. XL, no. 135.

Another impression was sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part, 30 October, 1997, lot 161.