YASHIMA GAKUTEI (c.1780-c.1869)

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YASHIMA GAKUTEI (c.1780-c.1869)
From the series Katsushika-ren gakumen fujin awase [Framed Paintings of Women for the Katsushika Circle) depicting the celebrated courtesan Hyogo, signed Gakutei, poems by Bumposha Tamamaru and Shobaisha Shimaru, very fine impression and colours with the use of gold, silver and copper-coloured powders, Scheiwe Collection seal verso
Shikishiban surimono: 8 1/8 x 7½in. (20.7 x 18.5cm.)

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Theodor Scheiwe

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Lot Essay

For other impressions of this rare surimono see Joan Mirviss and John Carpenter, The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono, (New York, 1985), p. 70-73, and Roger Keyes, Surimono, Privately Printed Japanese Woodblock Prints in The Chester Beatty Library (New York, 1985), p. 93.

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