ATTRIBUTED TO UTAMARO (1754-1806): an album, 25.8 x 19cm., comprising twelve oban yoko-e shunga prints from the set Ehon Komachibiki, no preface nor colophon, unsigned--good impressions and colour, center foldpb385h with four binding holes along the centre fold line, some minor soiling, bottom corners slightly rubbed

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ATTRIBUTED TO UTAMARO (1754-1806): an album, 25.8 x 19cm., comprising twelve oban yoko-e shunga prints from the set Ehon Komachibiki, no preface nor colophon, unsigned--good impressions and colour, center foldpb385h with four binding holes along the centre fold line, some minor soiling, bottom corners slightly rubbed

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According to Yoshikazu Hayashi, the author of Empon kenkyu, Utamaro (Tokyo 1962), this set, published in Kyowa 2 (1802), is one of the three of Utamaro's shunga masterpieces, others being Utamakura and Negai no itoguchi.

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