YASHIMA GAKUTEI (c. 1786-1868): surimono, kakuban, 20.2 x 18cm., two dancers on the stage, titled Hisakataya Furuichi odori 'The dance at Furuichi for the Hisakataya Group', two poems, one by Suishotei Komatsu and the other by unidentified poet, signed Gakutei Sadaoka hitsu; KAZUTERU, a long surimono, 21 x 58.5cm., a New Year's decoration, kadomatsu, with pine, bamboo and blossoming plum branches, kyoka poems, signed Terukazu--the first, good impression and colour, lightly backed, the second, good impression and colour, slight wormage (2)

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YASHIMA GAKUTEI (c. 1786-1868): surimono, kakuban, 20.2 x 18cm., two dancers on the stage, titled Hisakataya Furuichi odori 'The dance at Furuichi for the Hisakataya Group', two poems, one by Suishotei Komatsu and the other by unidentified poet, signed Gakutei Sadaoka hitsu; KAZUTERU, a long surimono, 21 x 58.5cm., a New Year's decoration, kadomatsu, with pine, bamboo and blossoming plum branches, kyoka poems, signed Terukazu--the first, good impression and colour, lightly backed, the second, good impression and colour, slight wormage (2)

Lot Essay

The first surimono is the central sheet of the set of five. The complete set is illustrated in Keyes, The art of surimono (London 1985), Vol. I, Nos. 48-52

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