Lot 20
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KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban tate-e (36.2 x 25.2cm.); full-length portraits of the maegashira Miyagino Kinnosuke on the right, wearing a fringed apron (keshomawashi) decorated with birds flying over waves, and the ozeki Tanikaze Kajinosuke, wearing a brocade apron emblazoned with his name, signed Shunsho ga and published by Matsumura Yahei--good impression and color, folded, trimmed and thinned in places, some soiling and rubbing, binding holes

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KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban tate-e (36.2 x 25.2cm.); full-length portraits of the maegashira Miyagino Kinnosuke on the right, wearing a fringed apron (keshomawashi) decorated with birds flying over waves, and the ozeki Tanikaze Kajinosuke, wearing a brocade apron emblazoned with his name, signed Shunsho ga and published by Matsumura Yahei--good impression and color, folded, trimmed and thinned in places, some soiling and rubbing, binding holes

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 7a

For another impression of this print see Narazaki, Muneshige and Wakamori Taro, eds., Ozumo (Tokyo: Gakken, 1977), color plate, p. 31