KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban tate-e (38.3 x 25.4cm. and 38.4 x 24.6cm.); full-length portraits of wrestlers of the Eastern Group, depicting Kurateyama Yadayu wearing an apron decorated with a horse on the right, and Izumigawa Rin'emon on the left, signed Shunsho ga--good impression, faded and slightly soiled; and another full-length portait of wrestlers of the Western Group, depicting Kashiwado Kandayu of Edo on the right, wearing an apron decorated with a black bear at bay, and Inagawa Masaemon of Osaka on the left, signed Shunsho ga--good impression, faded, toned and retouched (2)

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KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban tate-e (38.3 x 25.4cm. and 38.4 x 24.6cm.); full-length portraits of wrestlers of the Eastern Group, depicting Kurateyama Yadayu wearing an apron decorated with a horse on the right, and Izumigawa Rin'emon on the left, signed Shunsho ga--good impression, faded and slightly soiled; and another full-length portait of wrestlers of the Western Group, depicting Kashiwado Kandayu of Edo on the right, wearing an apron decorated with a black bear at bay, and Inagawa Masaemon of Osaka on the left, signed Shunsho ga--good impression, faded, toned and retouched (2)

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PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pls. 7k and 7b

For another impression of the first see Narazaki, Muneshige and Wakamori Taro, eds., , Ozumo (Tokyo: Gakken, 1977), color plate, p. 30