SHUNSHO: dai oban tate-e (45.3 x 32.9cm.); a half length portrait in a fan outline of the actor Yamashita Kinsaku in a female role, holding one sleeve to her mouth and folding the fingers of her left hand in front of her tie-dyed obi, from the series Azuma ogi "Fans of the east", signed Shunsho ga and published by Iwatoya Gempachi--very good impression, slightly faded, purple pigment faded to grey, small tears restored, random soil and small stains

From the Collection of the late WERNER SCHINDLERC

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SHUNSHO: dai oban tate-e (45.3 x 32.9cm.); a half length portrait in a fan outline of the actor Yamashita Kinsaku in a female role, holding one sleeve to her mouth and folding the fingers of her left hand in front of her tie-dyed obi, from the series Azuma ogi "Fans of the east", signed Shunsho ga and published by Iwatoya Gempachi--very good impression, slightly faded, purple pigment faded to grey, small tears restored, random soil and small stains

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED
Eiko Kondo, Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints from the Schindler Collection (1985), pl. 28

For the eleven other prints in this rare set see Narazaki, et al, 'Shunsho', Vol. III, Ukiyo-e taikei (Tokyo, 1974), pl. 39 and nos. 127-136