UTAMARO (1754-1806):  oban tate-e (38.3 x 24.5cm.); from the series Fujin tewaza juni-ko [Twelve types of women's handicraft] depicting two women busy washing and hanging cloth with a design of stars and butterflies, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Wakasaya Yoichi--very good impression and good colour, a little trimmed along the left
UTAMARO (1754-1806): oban tate-e (38.3 x 24.5cm.); from the series Fujin tewaza juni-ko [Twelve types of women's handicraft] depicting two women busy washing and hanging cloth with a design of stars and butterflies, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Wakasaya Yoichi--very good impression and good colour, a little trimmed along the left

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UTAMARO (1754-1806): oban tate-e (38.3 x 24.5cm.); from the series Fujin tewaza juni-ko [Twelve types of women's handicraft] depicting two women busy washing and hanging cloth with a design of stars and butterflies, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Wakasaya Yoichi--very good impression and good colour, a little trimmed along the left
Literature
For similar example, see Shibui, K., Ukiyoe zuten (Kazama Shobo, Tokyo, 1964), p. 103 and in Shuga, A. and Clark, T., The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, (Asahi Shimbun, 1995), p. 166, pl. 313

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