KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban tate-e (37.8 x 25.4cm.); full-length portraits of wrestlers of the Eastern Group, depicting Uzugafuchi on the right wearing an apron decorated with a dragon in clouds and Onogawa on the left, wearing an apron decorated with a circle pattern, signed Shunsho ga--good impression, slightly faded, very slightly creased, and thinned and restored on the upright edges, otherwise good condition

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KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban tate-e (37.8 x 25.4cm.); full-length portraits of wrestlers of the Eastern Group, depicting Uzugafuchi on the right wearing an apron decorated with a dragon in clouds and Onogawa on the left, wearing an apron decorated with a circle pattern, signed Shunsho ga--good impression, slightly faded, very slightly creased, and thinned and restored on the upright edges, otherwise good condition
Provenance
Carl Schraubstadter, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 8, 1948, lot 30

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