YOSHITOSHI: oban tate-e triptych (36.6 x 24.8 cm.); Nezu hanayashiki daishoro "Daishoro brothel, Nezu", from a series Zensei shiki "The four seasons at their height", this labelled natsu,"summer", signed Oju Yoshitoshi ga and published by Akiyama Buemon, dated in the margin Meiji 16 (1883)- good impression and color, paper slightly toned

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YOSHITOSHI: oban tate-e triptych (36.6 x 24.8 cm.); Nezu hanayashiki daishoro "Daishoro brothel, Nezu", from a series Zensei shiki "The four seasons at their height", this labelled natsu,"summer", signed Oju Yoshitoshi ga and published by Akiyama Buemon, dated in the margin Meiji 16 (1883)- good impression and color, paper slightly toned

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Yoshitoshi frequented the fashionable Daishoro brothel after he moved to Tokyo's Nezu district. He identifies by labels the four women in the foreground as Kagetsu, Yoneju, Nakagawa and Shingaku