UTAGAWA KUNISATO, UTAGAWA YOSHIIKU AND OTHERS: two oban-sized banzuke, one depicting wrestlers in street clothes and one depicting wrestlers in keshomawashi, more customary, and one oversized bansuke (49.3 x 35.2 cm.), illustrating portraits of the top eighty wrestlers of the Eastern and Western Groups, by Yoshiiku and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi- good impressions, first two good color and condition, the last with a few random stains and slightly faded (3)

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UTAGAWA KUNISATO, UTAGAWA YOSHIIKU AND OTHERS: two oban-sized banzuke, one depicting wrestlers in street clothes and one depicting wrestlers in keshomawashi, more customary, and one oversized bansuke (49.3 x 35.2 cm.), illustrating portraits of the top eighty wrestlers of the Eastern and Western Groups, by Yoshiiku and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi- good impressions, first two good color and condition, the last with a few random stains and slightly faded (3)

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PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 57 (banzuke by Kunisato), pl. 58 (large banzuke)