HOKKEI: kakuban surimono (21.1 x 18.6 cm.); a woman in the street watching two boys transporting a large sheet of ice on a pole, one of their hands visible through the ice, in front of a public bath, signed Hokkei, poems above by Sansentei Mizusumi, Tanchotei Matsunari, Kinkoen Iwazumi and Sengetsutei Shimabito--very good impression and color, trimmed right edge and minute stains, otherwise very good condition

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HOKKEI: kakuban surimono (21.1 x 18.6 cm.); a woman in the street watching two boys transporting a large sheet of ice on a pole, one of their hands visible through the ice, in front of a public bath, signed Hokkei, poems above by Sansentei Mizusumi, Tanchotei Matsunari, Kinkoen Iwazumi and Sengetsutei Shimabito--very good impression and color, trimmed right edge and minute stains, otherwise very good condition

Literature

Lot Essay

For another impression see Keyes, The Art of Surimono, Privately Published Japanese Woodblock Prints and Books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1985), no. 132