Lot 184
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TAITO II: kakuban surimono diptych (21.3 x 18.1 cm. ea. approx.); women and boys gathering clams on the sea shore near Enoshima, with a distant view of Mt. Fuji, the furoshiki one woman is using printed with the emblem of the Katsushika-ren poetry circle, on the right sheet poems by Bunsosha Matsutoshi, Bunso Takeo and Bunsoan Hirotaka, and on the left sheet by Bunshiro Machiami, Bunseien Namiyoshi and Bunkaro Kiyomaru, signed Katsushika Taito--very good impression and color, metallic embellishments, light rubbing toward edges and several pin holes, otherwise good condition

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TAITO II: kakuban surimono diptych (21.3 x 18.1 cm. ea. approx.); women and boys gathering clams on the sea shore near Enoshima, with a distant view of Mt. Fuji, the furoshiki one woman is using printed with the emblem of the Katsushika-ren poetry circle, on the right sheet poems by Bunsosha Matsutoshi, Bunso Takeo and Bunsoan Hirotaka, and on the left sheet by Bunshiro Machiami, Bunseien Namiyoshi and Bunkaro Kiyomaru, signed Katsushika Taito--very good impression and color, metallic embellishments, light rubbing toward edges and several pin holes, otherwise good condition

Lot Essay

The Katsushika-ren was a large group of poets headed by Bumbunsha Kagikomaru. Members of the group employed the the character "bun"
in their names, seen here on the wrapping cloth held by the woman on the right sheet. The crabs (kagi) on the left sheet are emblematic of Bumbunsha, whose personal name translates as "Little crab".