TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI AND KATSUKAWA SHUNEI: oban tate-e (35.2 x 23.1 cm.); the seated wrestler Shirafuji Gendai and a kappa, from the series Wakan hyaku monogatari "One hundred ghost tales from China and Japan", a seated figure of the wrestler Onogawa Kisaburo exhaling the head of a monster, from the same series, both signed Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga, a triptych of the bout between Koyanagi Tsunekichi and Arauma Daigoro, signed Taiso Yoshitoshi, a fight scene of Taima no Kuchaya and Nomi no Sukune from Yoshitoshi mushaburui "Yoshitoshi's warriors trembling with courage", signed Taiso Yoshitoshi ga and published by Kobayashi Tetsujiro, a sheet from the series Kannon reigenki "Miracles of Kannon", signed Toyokuni ga and published by Yamadaya Shojiro, and a full length portrait of Onogawa on a blue ground, signed Shunei ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi- moderate and good impressions and color, stains and surface wear (8)

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TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI AND KATSUKAWA SHUNEI: oban tate-e (35.2 x 23.1 cm.); the seated wrestler Shirafuji Gendai and a kappa, from the series Wakan hyaku monogatari "One hundred ghost tales from China and Japan", a seated figure of the wrestler Onogawa Kisaburo exhaling the head of a monster, from the same series, both signed Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga, a triptych of the bout between Koyanagi Tsunekichi and Arauma Daigoro, signed Taiso Yoshitoshi, a fight scene of Taima no Kuchaya and Nomi no Sukune from Yoshitoshi mushaburui "Yoshitoshi's warriors trembling with courage", signed Taiso Yoshitoshi ga and published by Kobayashi Tetsujiro, a sheet from the series Kannon reigenki "Miracles of Kannon", signed Toyokuni ga and published by Yamadaya Shojiro, and a full length portrait of Onogawa on a blue ground, signed Shunei ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi- moderate and good impressions and color, stains and surface wear (8)

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Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, fig. 1 (Mushaburui series), pl. 6 (Yoshitoshi, Onogawa)