KUNIYOSHI AND YANAGAWA SHIGENOBU: surimono, kakuban, a diptych, the actors Iwai Tojaku and Segawa Kikunojo V in a atheatrical scene, a green background, with poems in cartouche by Tokosha Yonekazu and Sekiya Satomoto, signed Kuniyoshi ga--good impression, slight fading and soiling, some minor damage; and a series of five surimono, each approx. 20.5 x 18.4cm., all entitled Santo meishobana 'Flowers at famous places in the three capitals, the first of a young woman holding a fan and admiring violets, the second with a geisha wearing a checked kimono and her shamisen wrapped in a storage box placed behind her, the third of a waitress with a cup on a tray, the fourth with a beauty seated in front of a circular window with plum blossom seen outside, the fifth with a courtesan admiring a flowering cherry branch in a basket on a small cart, all signed Reisai and sealed Yanagawa--good impressions and colour, the third and fifth lightly backed, some slight soiling (7)

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KUNIYOSHI AND YANAGAWA SHIGENOBU: surimono, kakuban, a diptych, the actors Iwai Tojaku and Segawa Kikunojo V in a atheatrical scene, a green background, with poems in cartouche by Tokosha Yonekazu and Sekiya Satomoto, signed Kuniyoshi ga--good impression, slight fading and soiling, some minor damage; and a series of five surimono, each approx. 20.5 x 18.4cm., all entitled Santo meishobana 'Flowers at famous places in the three capitals, the first of a young woman holding a fan and admiring violets, the second with a geisha wearing a checked kimono and her shamisen wrapped in a storage box placed behind her, the third of a waitress with a cup on a tray, the fourth with a beauty seated in front of a circular window with plum blossom seen outside, the fifth with a courtesan admiring a flowering cherry branch in a basket on a small cart, all signed Reisai and sealed Yanagawa--good impressions and colour, the third and fifth lightly backed, some slight soiling (7)

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