KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (21.9 x 29.1cm.); Zato no seiran "Fine weather for a blind man" from the series Otsu-e hakkei "Eight views of Otsu-e", illustrated by a beauty and a dog, the small cartouche depicting a blind man attacked by a dog, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, published by Tsujiya Yasubei--fine impression and color, binding holes partly torn on right, a minute worm hole on upper right margin
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KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (21.9 x 29.1cm.); Zato no seiran "Fine weather for a blind man" from the series Otsu-e hakkei "Eight views of Otsu-e", illustrated by a beauty and a dog, the small cartouche depicting a blind man attacked by a dog, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, published by Tsujiya Yasubei--fine impression and color, binding holes partly torn on right, a minute worm hole on upper right margin
Lot Essay
Two other images from the same set are illustrated in Narazaki Muneshige, Victoria and Albert Museum II, Ukiyo-e masterpieces in European collections (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989), pls. 34 and 35.