KATSUKAWA SHUNTEI, UTAGAWA KUNITORA, UNSIGNED: oban tate-e (37.7 x 25.8 cm. ea. approx.); the bout between Takasago, facing outwards, and Musashigawa in the dohyo and before a pink background, signed Shunei ga [Shunei II, Shuntei], and published by Izumiya Ichibei, a full length portrait in keshomawashi against a blue ground of Azumazeki Katsugoro, signed Kunitora ga and published by Yamamotoya Heikichi and an unsigned portrait of Ozora Buzaemon seated in formal clothes holding a large sake cup, published by Moriya Jihei- good impressions, generally good color, a few areas of rubbing and stains, the last with small tear (3)

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KATSUKAWA SHUNTEI, UTAGAWA KUNITORA, UNSIGNED: oban tate-e (37.7 x 25.8 cm. ea. approx.); the bout between Takasago, facing outwards, and Musashigawa in the dohyo and before a pink background, signed Shunei ga [Shunei II, Shuntei], and published by Izumiya Ichibei, a full length portrait in keshomawashi against a blue ground of Azumazeki Katsugoro, signed Kunitora ga and published by Yamamotoya Heikichi and an unsigned portrait of Ozora Buzaemon seated in formal clothes holding a large sake cup, published by Moriya Jihei- good impressions, generally good color, a few areas of rubbing and stains, the last with small tear (3)

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PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, figs. 68, 75, 78