UTAGAWA KUNITORA: oban tate-e (38.2 x 25.7 cm. ea. approx.); Ozumo higashi no kata "The sumo Eastern Group", a triptych depicting wrestlers performing the dohyo-iri, signed Kunitora ga and published by Izumiya Ichibei and Yamamotoya Heikichi- very good impression, slightly faded, minor worming, otherwise good condition (3)

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UTAGAWA KUNITORA: oban tate-e (38.2 x 25.7 cm. ea. approx.); Ozumo higashi no kata "The sumo Eastern Group", a triptych depicting wrestlers performing the dohyo-iri, signed Kunitora ga and published by Izumiya Ichibei and Yamamotoya Heikichi- very good impression, slightly faded, minor worming, otherwise good condition (3)

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PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 35

For another impression of the center panel see Narazaki, Muneshige and Wakamori Taro, eds., Ozumo (Tokyo: Gakken, 1977), color plate, p. 53