UTAMARO (1754-1806): oban tate-e (25 x 35.4cm. ea. approx.); Komurasaki hitching up a mosquito net over her bed and her lover Gonpachi crawling beneath it, from the series Ongyoku hiyoku no bangumi, published by Enomoto; another of a lady carrying a koto and a child from the series Jiman kodakara awase, published by Izumi ya Ichibei; a sheet from a triptych entitled Konrei iro naoshi no zu, published by Marubun, all signed Utamaro hitsu; UTAMARO II (d. ca. 1831): oban tate-e (25 x 35.4cm.); an okubi-e portrait of two courtesans from the series Seiro niwaka, signed Utamaro hitsu, published by Yamaguchiya Tobei; EISHI (1756-1829): oban tate-e (37.1 x 25.2cm. ea. approx.) a triptych; with nine ladies sailing on a boat with a figurehead of a ho-o bird, signed Eishi ga, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--overall good impressions and faded, some wormholes, slightly soiled and minor foxing (7)

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UTAMARO (1754-1806): oban tate-e (25 x 35.4cm. ea. approx.); Komurasaki hitching up a mosquito net over her bed and her lover Gonpachi crawling beneath it, from the series Ongyoku hiyoku no bangumi, published by Enomoto; another of a lady carrying a koto and a child from the series Jiman kodakara awase, published by Izumi ya Ichibei; a sheet from a triptych entitled Konrei iro naoshi no zu, published by Marubun, all signed Utamaro hitsu; UTAMARO II (d. ca. 1831): oban tate-e (25 x 35.4cm.); an okubi-e portrait of two courtesans from the series Seiro niwaka, signed Utamaro hitsu, published by Yamaguchiya Tobei; EISHI (1756-1829): oban tate-e (37.1 x 25.2cm. ea. approx.) a triptych; with nine ladies sailing on a boat with a figurehead of a ho-o bird, signed Eishi ga, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--overall good impressions and faded, some wormholes, slightly soiled and minor foxing (7)
Literature
For a similar example to the first print, see Henri Vever collection Sale catalogue Part II, 26 March 1975, lot 196; for the series see Shibui, K., Ukiyoe zuten, (Kazama Shobo, Tokyo 1964), p. 175. For the complete set of the third print, see the same book, p. 38.

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