Lot 131
131
KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.6 x 29.3cm.); Sumidagawa "Sumida River", a beauty under a cherry tree by the river bank putting her hand on a figure of Daruma, representing cherry blossoms, from the series Rokkasen "Six flower rivers", signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Iseya Soemon--very good impression and color, slightly stained along edges, slightly soiled, binding holes on right, corners trimmed, a minute worm hole in the upper right margin
KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.6 x 29.3cm.); Sumidagawa "Sumida River", a beauty under a cherry tree by the river bank putting her hand on a figure of Daruma, representing cherry blossoms, from the series Rokkasen "Six flower rivers", signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Iseya Soemon--very good impression and color, slightly stained along edges, slightly soiled, binding holes on right, corners trimmed, a minute worm hole in the upper right margin

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KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.6 x 29.3cm.); Sumidagawa "Sumida River", a beauty under a cherry tree by the river bank putting her hand on a figure of Daruma, representing cherry blossoms, from the series Rokkasen "Six flower rivers", signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Iseya Soemon--very good impression and color, slightly stained along edges, slightly soiled, binding holes on right, corners trimmed, a minute worm hole in the upper right margin

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Other images from the same set: Ayasegawa, with hydrangea, in Suzuki Juzo, Kuniyoshi (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1992), pl. 288; and Okawa, with morning glory, in Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku, Ukiyo-e hanga hen (Illustrated catalogue of the Tokyo National Museum, Ukiyo-e prints), vol. 3, (Tokyo: Tokyo bijutsu, 1974), no. 3063.