Details
Attributed to SHIGEMASA (1739-1820): hashira-e (72 x 12cm.); two courtesans strolling side by side; KORYUSAI (fl. 1768-1788): hashira-e (65.5 x 11.9cm.); a courtesan strolling accompanied by her lover disguised in a hat and face mask under a flowering cherry tree, signed Koryusai ga--very good impressions and fairly good colours, some browning, some creases and backed (2)
Literature
For a similar example to the first see, Pins, J., The Japanese Pillar Print: Hashira-e (Robert G. Sawers, London, 1982), p. 213, pl. 530; and p. 162, pl.339 for the second; Gentles, M., The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints, (Art Institue of Chicago, 1965), vol II, no. 25, for the first and no. 78, p. 216 for the second; and Ficke, A. D., Chats on Japanese Prints, (T. Fisher Unwin, 1916), p.169, pl. 18 for the first.