KUNIYOSHI AND EISEN: kakuban surimono (21.1 x 18.6 cm. ea. approx.); three surimono, the actor Iwai Hanshiro V in female costume seated by a brazier smoking, poem above by Ryusonsha Kocho and a ballad by Ryuotei Hananari, a roundel of the bonito fish celebrated in the ballad at the left, from an untitled set of women in daily life, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga; a beauty and her admirer pausing for a smoke under a willow tree, the Sumida beyond, poem by Ryuotei Hananari, here signed Edo no Hananari, signed Keisai Eisen ga; and a rectangular surimono of a still life and poems, signed Eisen ga--good impressions, slightly faded, the last good color, surface rubbing and stains (3)

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KUNIYOSHI AND EISEN: kakuban surimono (21.1 x 18.6 cm. ea. approx.); three surimono, the actor Iwai Hanshiro V in female costume seated by a brazier smoking, poem above by Ryusonsha Kocho and a ballad by Ryuotei Hananari, a roundel of the bonito fish celebrated in the ballad at the left, from an untitled set of women in daily life, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga; a beauty and her admirer pausing for a smoke under a willow tree, the Sumida beyond, poem by Ryuotei Hananari, here signed Edo no Hananari, signed Keisai Eisen ga; and a rectangular surimono of a still life and poems, signed Eisen ga--good impressions, slightly faded, the last good color, surface rubbing and stains (3)