Lot 23
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KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban tate-e (38 x 25cm.); full-length portraits of wrestlers of the Western Group, depicting Sekinoto Hachiroji on the right and Dewanoumi Kinzo on the left, signed Shunsho ga--good impression and color, slightly soiled and thinned on the upright edges, slight worming restored

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KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban tate-e (38 x 25cm.); full-length portraits of wrestlers of the Western Group, depicting Sekinoto Hachiroji on the right and Dewanoumi Kinzo on the left, signed Shunsho ga--good impression and color, slightly soiled and thinned on the upright edges, slight worming restored

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

For another impression of this print see Narazaki, Muneshige, ed., Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections, Vol.9, Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1987), pl. 98


Sekinoto Hachiroji of the Western Group held the rank of second maegashira from 1788 to 1790.