Lot 352
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BUNCHO: hosoban (31 x 14.4cm.); a full-length portrait of the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as Soga no Goro standing by a stream and a bridge, two herons in flight above, in the play Fuji no yukiai todomari Soga, performed at the Ichimura theater 1/1770, the actor's name inscribed in ink, signed Ippitsusai Buncho ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--very good impression, slightly faded
BUNCHO: hosoban (31 x 14.4cm.); a full-length portrait of the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as Soga no Goro standing by a stream and a bridge, two herons in flight above, in the play Fuji no yukiai todomari Soga, performed at the Ichimura theater 1/1770, the actor's name inscribed in ink, signed Ippitsusai Buncho ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--very good impression, slightly faded

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BUNCHO: hosoban (31 x 14.4cm.); a full-length portrait of the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as Soga no Goro standing by a stream and a bridge, two herons in flight above, in the play Fuji no yukiai todomari Soga, performed at the Ichimura theater 1/1770, the actor's name inscribed in ink, signed Ippitsusai Buncho ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--very good impression, slightly faded

Lot Essay

This print is probably the right panel of a diptych. The left panel is a portrait of Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Soga no Juro. An impression of the left panel also inscribed with Ichimura Uzaemon's name was sold in these Rooms, Important Japanese Prints from the Collection of the Late Sidney A. Tannenbaun, 20 March, 1985, lot 143.