Lot 33
33
UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI: oban tate-e (37.6 x 25.2 cm.); one sheet of a triptych depicting an onnagata standing before a backdrop of Mt. Fuji, signed Toyokuni ga and published by Izumiya Ichibei and another sheet from a triptych depicting three young women at the edge of a bay, boatmen and a diver girl in the background, signed Toyokuni ga and published by Yamaguchiya Chusuke--good impressions, the first rather good color and with horizontal fold, the second faded and rubbed and with small holes (2)

Details
UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI: oban tate-e (37.6 x 25.2 cm.); one sheet of a triptych depicting an onnagata standing before a backdrop of Mt. Fuji, signed Toyokuni ga and published by Izumiya Ichibei and another sheet from a triptych depicting three young women at the edge of a bay, boatmen and a diver girl in the background, signed Toyokuni ga and published by Yamaguchiya Chusuke--good impressions, the first rather good color and with horizontal fold, the second faded and rubbed and with small holes (2)
Provenance
Arthur Davison Ficke (the second print), The Japanese Print Collection of Arthur Davison Ficke, New York, Anderson Galleries, January 29-30, 1925