Lot 60
60
KATSUKAWA SHUNEI: oban tate-e (38.5 x 25.6 cm.); a full length portrait of Onogawa, wearing a brown cloak patterned with white fret patterns and a brown robe and holding a red and white fan, and his attendant Kusunoki, in striped yellow robes, the ground blue, signed Shunei ga and published by Tsuruya Kiemon- very good impression, slightly faded around edges, worm holes restored toward edges, small stains

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KATSUKAWA SHUNEI: oban tate-e (38.5 x 25.6 cm.); a full length portrait of Onogawa, wearing a brown cloak patterned with white fret patterns and a brown robe and holding a red and white fan, and his attendant Kusunoki, in striped yellow robes, the ground blue, signed Shunei ga and published by Tsuruya Kiemon- very good impression, slightly faded around edges, worm holes restored toward edges, small stains

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 18

For another impression of this print see Narazaki, Muneshige, ed., Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections, Vol. 2, British Museum II, (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1987), pl. 117