UTAGAWA KUNISADA: oban tate-e (37.4 x 25.6 cm. ea. approx.); two prints from the series Sumo ningyo hana no torikumi "Wrestling match between sumo dolls and flowers", each depicting a beauty holding a doll puppet of a sumo wrestler, signed Kunisada aratame nidai Toyokuni ga "Kunisada changing to the second Toyokuni" and published by Wakasaya Jingoro- good impressions and color, one with horizontal fold, slight soil, otherwise good condition (2)

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UTAGAWA KUNISADA: oban tate-e (37.4 x 25.6 cm. ea. approx.); two prints from the series Sumo ningyo hana no torikumi "Wrestling match between sumo dolls and flowers", each depicting a beauty holding a doll puppet of a sumo wrestler, signed Kunisada aratame nidai Toyokuni ga "Kunisada changing to the second Toyokuni" and published by Wakasaya Jingoro- good impressions and color, one with horizontal fold, slight soil, otherwise good condition (2)

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PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 47