Lot 141
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KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.8 x 29.5cm.); Atsurae zome konomi no irodori "Favorite colors for custom-dying" and subtitled Fuji nezumi "Mount Fuji gray", signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, censor's seal corresponding to 1853, second month, published by Iseya Soemon--fine impression and color, binding holes on left edge, otherwise good condition
KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.8 x 29.5cm.); Atsurae zome konomi no irodori "Favorite colors for custom-dying" and subtitled Fuji nezumi "Mount Fuji gray", signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, censor's seal corresponding to 1853, second month, published by Iseya Soemon--fine impression and color, binding holes on left edge, otherwise good condition

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KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.8 x 29.5cm.); Atsurae zome konomi no irodori "Favorite colors for custom-dying" and subtitled Fuji nezumi "Mount Fuji gray", signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, censor's seal corresponding to 1853, second month, published by Iseya Soemon--fine impression and color, binding holes on left edge, otherwise good condition

Lot Essay

Two other images from the same set, entitled Edo murasaki "Edo purple" and Ai miru cha "Tea-hut brown", are illustrated in Uragami Toshiro, Ukiyo-e Utagawa-ha san kyosho ten - Kunisada Kuniyoshi Hiroshige no sekai (Exhibition of three masters of the Utagawa school - the world of Kunisada, Kuniyoshi and Hiroshige -) (Hagi: TYS, 1991), pls. 74, 75, 109; and Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutukan zuhan mokuroku, Ukiyo-e hanga hen (Illustrated catalogue of Tokyo National Museum, Ukiyo-e prints), vol. 3, (Tokyo: Tokyo bijutsu, 1974), no. 3053.