KORYUSAI (fl. ca 1768-1788): oban tate-e (37.7 x 25.7cm.); from the series Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo [Model patterns of early spring greens] with the courtesan Hayama of the Asahimaruya, looking at the lining of a haori held up by two kamuro, Takeno and Mumeno, showing a design of Mount Fuji, signed Buko Yagenbori Inshi Koryu ga, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--good impression and good colour, slightly rubbed, backed binding holes

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KORYUSAI (fl. ca 1768-1788): oban tate-e (37.7 x 25.7cm.); from the series Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo [Model patterns of early spring greens] with the courtesan Hayama of the Asahimaruya, looking at the lining of a haori held up by two kamuro, Takeno and Mumeno, showing a design of Mount Fuji, signed Buko Yagenbori Inshi Koryu ga, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--good impression and good colour, slightly rubbed, backed binding holes

Literature

For a similar example, see Gentles, M., The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965) vol. II, p. 255, no. 159

Sale room notice

This print is an oban tate-e and not an oban yoko-e as stated in the catalogue.

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