Lot 2
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NISHIMURA SHIGENOBU: hosoban (39 x 14.5cm.); a sumizuri-e depicting a full-length portrait of the wrestler Maruyama Gontazaemon (1713-49), his family name inscribed on the right, signed Eshi Nishimura Shigenobu--good impression, slight damage to the upper left and thinly backed, otherwise good condition

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NISHIMURA SHIGENOBU: hosoban (39 x 14.5cm.); a sumizuri-e depicting a full-length portrait of the wrestler Maruyama Gontazaemon (1713-49), his family name inscribed on the right, signed Eshi Nishimura Shigenobu--good impression, slight damage to the upper left and thinly backed, otherwise good condition

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PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, fig. 6a


A portrait of Maruyama Gontazaemon, the third yokozuna in 1749, in a dohyo-iri pose at a kanjin (temple solicitation) match.