UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE: oban yoko-e (25.9 x 38.5 cm.); Shinsen sumo zukushi "Newly selected sumo set", depicting groups of wrestlers in various poses on a yellow ground, signed Hiroshige ga and published by Eijudo [Nishimuraya Yohachi] and bearing another publisher's seal attributed to Etsuki [or Koshiki], ca. 1829; together with two double page book illustrations designed by Hokusai serving as the basis for the Hiroshige print- good impression, slightly faded, slightly soiled and creased toward edges (3)

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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE: oban yoko-e (25.9 x 38.5 cm.); Shinsen sumo zukushi "Newly selected sumo set", depicting groups of wrestlers in various poses on a yellow ground, signed Hiroshige ga and published by Eijudo [Nishimuraya Yohachi] and bearing another publisher's seal attributed to Etsuki [or Koshiki], ca. 1829; together with two double page book illustrations designed by Hokusai serving as the basis for the Hiroshige print- good impression, slightly faded, slightly soiled and creased toward edges (3)

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Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 36