VARIOUS ARTISTS (late 18th Century and later)

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VARIOUS ARTISTS (late 18th Century and later)
HOKUSAI: Ejiri and Sakanoshita, from one of the small series of the Tokaido Highway; and Minasegai [The dry-shallows shell], from the series Genroku kasen kai awase [A matching game with the Genroku poem shells]; attributed to SHUNMAN: Jurojin standing, a tiger by his feet; and another with a flower arrangement; TOYOKUNI: a full length portrait of two actors Bando Hikosaburo and Sawamura Tannosuke; KUNISADA: a triptych, Gentoku fusetsuho Komei [Gentoku making a visit to Komei in the snow] depicted with three beauties; EISEN: Fukurokuju with two courtesans on either side; after GAKUTEI: Geisha and Peacock from the series Honchoren juban tsuzuki [Ten pictures for the Honcho castle]; EIZAN: ten small sheets of children dressed up and marching in a Daimyo procession; KUNIYASU: ten small sheets with women in a procession; HIROSHIGE: Kameido umeya no zu [Plum tree garden, Kameido] from the Toto Meisho series [Famous places of the Eastern capital] and Chiryu from one of the smaller series of the Tokaido gojusan tsugi [The fifty-three stations of the Tokaido]; school of KUNIMASA: a diptych, watercolour and ink with two No actors on a stage--fairly good impressions, colour, some with slight fading, soiling and some backed and with minor restorations
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Literature
For a similar example of the surimono by Hokusai, Minasegai, signed Getchirojin Iitsu hitsu, see Roger Keyes The Art of Surimono (London, 1985), pl. 194 p. 222 and 209; and for the one after Gakutei see the same book pl. 98, p. 127.

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