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SADAHIDE AND OTHER UTAGAWA SCHOOL ARTISTS: oban tate-e (37.1 x 24.5cm. ea. approx.); an accordion-style album mounted with a large number of triptychs and single sheets, including eleven triptychs of foreigners in Japan, views of foreigners in foreign countries- Washington, D. C., London, Nanking and Paris, American steamships, steamships of America, England, Holland, Russia and France, various signed Yoshiiku, Hiroshige [II]m Yoshitora, Yoshikazu and Yoshiharu, a pentaptych of foreign ships at Yokohama (second state with red edge of British flag), signed Gountei Sadahide ga, a hexaptypch bird's-eye perspective view of Yokohama, signed Gountei Sadahide ga, a single sheet of a tiger, signed Yoshiiku, a single sheet of an elephant, signed Yoshitoyo, a single sheet of a giant and midgets, signed Yoshitoshi ga, five single sheets of foreigners signed Yoshimori, Yoshitora and Yoshikazu, four hand-painted bust portraits of members of Admiral Perry's crew; mounted on the opposite sides with nineteen triptychs of views of Japan and the activities of warriors in feudal Japan, variously signed by Sadahide, Yoshitsuya, Kunifuku, Hiroshige [II], Yoshiiku, Yoshikata and Yoshitora--mostly good impressions and color, all laid down on paper, some stains, soil and rubbing