KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban tate-e (37.6 x 25.1cm.); full-length portraits of wrestlers of the Eastern Group, depicting Yatsugamine Sumiemon, wearing an apron decorated with a peony pattern, on the right and Tomagashima Uraemon, wearing an apron decorated with plovers flying over waves on the left, signed Shunsho ga and published by Matsumura Yahei--good impression, very slightly faded, otherwise good condition

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KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban tate-e (37.6 x 25.1cm.); full-length portraits of wrestlers of the Eastern Group, depicting Yatsugamine Sumiemon, wearing an apron decorated with a peony pattern, on the right and Tomagashima Uraemon, wearing an apron decorated with plovers flying over waves on the left, signed Shunsho ga and published by Matsumura Yahei--good impression, very slightly faded, otherwise good condition

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PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 7i

For another impression of this print see Narazaki, Muneshige, ed., Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections, Vol, 8, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1987), no. 24