Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764)

Shin Yoshiwara daimonguchi uki-e kongen (Original perspective picture of the entrance of the great gate to the Shin Yoshiwara)

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Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764)
Shin Yoshiwara daimonguchi uki-e kongen
(Original perspective picture of the entrance of the great gate to the Shin Yoshiwara)
Oversized sumizuri-e with applied color, signed Hogetsudo Okumura bunkaku Masanobu shohitsu, gourd seal Tanshosai, published by Okumuraya Genroku--very good impression, good color later added, centerfold, light staining and soil, paper scuffed, pin hole worming
dai oban yoko-e: 33.5 x 45.2cm.

Provenance

Wakai Kenzaburo (1834-1908)
Henri Vever (1854-1942), sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part, 30 October 1997, lot 5

Sale room notice

Please note the estimate should read $20,000-22,000.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Jack Hillier, Suzuki Juzo and Adachi Toyohisa, Ukiyo-e: Beberu korekushon (Vever Collection) (Tokyo, 1976), no. 29.

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