Lot 90
90
KUNISADA: aiban uchiwa-e (22.7 x 29.9cm.); a half-length portrait of a beauty with a koto and a plectrum, a cloud-patterned cartouche with the title Furyu bijin awase "Collection of fashionable beauties" and signature Kochoro Kunisada fude, the backdrop of Carriage wheels on a purple ground and the crest on her hair pin alluding to "Waka-murasaki", chapter 5 of The Tale of Genji, censor's seal corresponding to 1835--fine impression and color, slight stain along side edges, binding holes on both side, some minor worm holes on the bottom, lower left corner slightly soiled
KUNISADA: aiban uchiwa-e (22.7 x 29.9cm.); a half-length portrait of a beauty with a koto and a plectrum, a cloud-patterned cartouche with the title Furyu bijin awase "Collection of fashionable beauties" and signature Kochoro Kunisada fude, the backdrop of Carriage wheels on a purple ground and the crest on her hair pin alluding to "Waka-murasaki", chapter 5 of The Tale of Genji, censor's seal corresponding to 1835--fine impression and color, slight stain along side edges, binding holes on both side, some minor worm holes on the bottom, lower left corner slightly soiled

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KUNISADA: aiban uchiwa-e (22.7 x 29.9cm.); a half-length portrait of a beauty with a koto and a plectrum, a cloud-patterned cartouche with the title Furyu bijin awase "Collection of fashionable beauties" and signature Kochoro Kunisada fude, the backdrop of Carriage wheels on a purple ground and the crest on her hair pin alluding to "Waka-murasaki", chapter 5 of The Tale of Genji, censor's seal corresponding to 1835--fine impression and color, slight stain along side edges, binding holes on both side, some minor worm holes on the bottom, lower left corner slightly soiled