Lot 99
99
TAITO II: kakuban surimono (21 x 18.1cm.); a geisha looking up at a nightingale, a samisen box open behind her as she washes a sake cup in a large blue and white bowl, from the series Katsushika gosekku "The five festivals for the Katsushika circle", this the Boys' Festival [iris leaves] or New Year [nightingale and sake cup], signed Katsushika Taito with printer's seal Shunfudo Ryuko suri, poems by Bunchien Naomichi and Bunshinsha Hashizumi--very good impression, good color, brass and silver embellishments, gauffrage, good condition

Details
TAITO II: kakuban surimono (21 x 18.1cm.); a geisha looking up at a nightingale, a samisen box open behind her as she washes a sake cup in a large blue and white bowl, from the series Katsushika gosekku "The five festivals for the Katsushika circle", this the Boys' Festival [iris leaves] or New Year [nightingale and sake cup], signed Katsushika Taito with printer's seal Shunfudo Ryuko suri, poems by Bunchien Naomichi and Bunshinsha Hashizumi--very good impression, good color, brass and silver embellishments, gauffrage, good condition
Provenance
Henri Vever, sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books, Drawings and Paintings from the Henri Vever Collection: Part III, 24 March 1977, no. 301