Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)
Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)

Gosho guruma joro no zu (Palace carriages and noble ladies) Karakoto of the Chojiya teahouse, from the series Yukun nana Komachi (Courtesans as the seven Komachi) Komurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series Sakizoroi shintaku no kadan (Array of blooms in the flower bed at the new quarters)

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Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)
Gosho guruma joro no zu (Palace carriages and noble ladies)

Karakoto of the Chojiya teahouse, from the series Yukun nana Komachi (Courtesans as the seven Komachi)

Komurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series Sakizoroi shintaku no kadan (Array of blooms in the flower bed at the new quarters)
Three prints, the first the right sheet of a triptych depicting two ladies, another behind a blind; the second a seated courtesan leaning on a lacquer samisen box, poem above; the third two standing courtesans regarding a seated kamuro playing an instrument--each signed Utamaro hitsu, the second published by Izumiya Ichibei--moderate and good impressions, faded, soiled, stains
oban tate-e: 36.5 x 25.2cm., first; 39.3 x 26.8cm., second; 38.3 x 25.3cm., third (3)
Provenance
Hayashi Tadamasa (the third)

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