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CELEBRATED BEAUTIES OF THE KANBUN ERA EDO PERIOD, KANBUN ERA (1661-73)

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Celebrated beauties of the Kanbun era
Edo period, Kanbun era (1661-73)
Thirty shikishi (square cards); ink and color on decorated, mica-ground paper
7.7/8 x 6.7/8in. (20 x 17.4cm.) each (30)

Lot Essay

published:

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 2 (1-30).

Nakau Ei, ed., Ukiyo-e hyakunin hyakushu (Ukiyo-e--one hundred people, one hundred minds) (Tokyo: Sojusha Bijutsu Shuppan, 1984), p. 37.

Richard Lane, Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print Reprint, New York: Dorset Press, 1982), pl. 15.