TOSHUSAI SHARAKU (fl. 1794-95), oban tate-e, 37.4 x 23.2cm., an okubi-e portrait of the actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the nurse Shigenoi, the wife of Date no Yosaku holding an amulet bag, in the play Koi nyobo somewake tazuna, performed at the Kawarazaki Theatre in the 5th month of 1794, signed Toshusai Sharaku ga, kiwame seal, published by Tsutaya Juzaburo, very good impression, rather faded, overall soiling, some wear to the mica, restored and faded

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TOSHUSAI SHARAKU (fl. 1794-95), oban tate-e, 37.4 x 23.2cm., an okubi-e portrait of the actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the nurse Shigenoi, the wife of Date no Yosaku holding an amulet bag, in the play Koi nyobo somewake tazuna, performed at the Kawarazaki Theatre in the 5th month of 1794, signed Toshusai Sharaku ga, kiwame seal, published by Tsutaya Juzaburo, very good impression, rather faded, overall soiling, some wear to the mica, restored and faded

Lot Essay

Other impressions are illustrated in the following publications: Kurth, Sharaku (Munich 1910), no. 20s, pl. 51; Vignier & Inada, Kiyonaga, Buncho, Sharaku - Estampes Japonaises (Paris 1912), pl. LXVIII; Henderson & Ledoux, The surviving works of Sharaku (New York 1939), no. 14; Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum, Ukiyo-e Prints, (Tokyo 1962), Vol. 2, no. 2362; Suzuki, Sharaku (Tokyo 1966), no. 25; Yamaguchi et al, 'Sharaku', Ukiyo-e taikei (Tokyo 1973), Vol. 7, no. 23; Lane, Images from the floating world (Oxford University Press 1978), no.580; Delafond, La Collection d'estampes Japonaises de Claude Monet (1983 Giverny), no. 57

Another impression of this print was sold in Tokyo by Sotheby's, Japanese and Chinese prints, The Walter Amstutz collection, April 15, 1991, lot 122

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