Lot 429
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KUNIYOSHI: oban yoko-e (25.6 x 37.1cm.); Omori, from the series Toto meisho (Famous places of the eastern capital), signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Kagaya Kichibei--very good impression and color, bamboo border preserved although bottom margin trimmed slightly into the border, some minor worm holes and small area of top right corner restored
KUNIYOSHI: oban yoko-e (25.6 x 37.1cm.); Omori, from the series Toto meisho (Famous places of the eastern capital), signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Kagaya Kichibei--very good impression and color, bamboo border preserved although bottom margin trimmed slightly into the border, some minor worm holes and small area of top right corner restored

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KUNIYOSHI: oban yoko-e (25.6 x 37.1cm.); Omori, from the series Toto meisho (Famous places of the eastern capital), signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Kagaya Kichibei--very good impression and color, bamboo border preserved although bottom margin trimmed slightly into the border, some minor worm holes and small area of top right corner restored

Lot Essay

For other impressions see Suzuki Juzo, Kuniyoshi (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1970), pl. 19; Tokyo National Museum, ed., vol. 1 of Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku: Ukiyo-e hanga hen/Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1974), no. 3090; Vignier and Inada, Utamaro..., Estampes Japonaises: Tires des Collection de...et Exposes au Muse des Arts Dcoratifs en Janvier 1912, reprinted in 2 vols. (Geneva: Minkoff Reprint, 1973), pl. XL, no. 136; and Yamaguchi Keizaburo, ed., Gurabuhon ukiyo-e meihin ten/Grabhorn Collection, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Bunyusha, 1995), pl. 157.

Another impression was sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: FinalPart, 30 October, 1997, lot 160.