KUNIYOSHI: oban tate-e triptych (35.8 x 23.5 cm. each approx.); Mongaku shonin performing his penance beneath the waterfall at Machi, watched by Fudo Myo-o and two attendants, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, kiri seal and published by Sumiyoshiya Machigoro -- very good impression, color slightly faded, edges slightly trimmed and the bottom plate with slight, vertical centerfold

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KUNIYOSHI: oban tate-e triptych (35.8 x 23.5 cm. each approx.); Mongaku shonin performing his penance beneath the waterfall at Machi, watched by Fudo Myo-o and two attendants, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, kiri seal and published by Sumiyoshiya Machigoro -- very good impression, color slightly faded, edges slightly trimmed and the bottom plate with slight, vertical centerfold

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This impression differs from that illustrated in Suzuki Juzo, Kuniyoshi (Tokyo 1992), pl. 1. Both impressions are relatively the same quality but the present example has an extra block employed in the foam at the bottom of the print.