Mitate Tsutsu izutsu (A parody of the Well curb from Tales of Ise)

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Chobunsai Eishi (1756-1829)
Mitate Tsutsu izutsu (A parody of the Well curb from Tales of Ise)
The left and middle sheets of a triptych depicting a young man and beauties at a garden well, poems above, signed Eishi ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--good impressions, faded, gauffrage, soiled, pin hole worming, lightly stained and creased

oban tate-e: 36.5 x 25cm., each approx.

Chokosai Eisho (fl. 1790s)

Narihira ason ui koburi yatsushi (The coming-of-age ceremony of Narihira)

Triptych, depicting Narihira seated on a tatami mat attended by elaborately dressed beauties bearing a robe and hat, a sword, small sake cups on a tray and a spouted sake vessel, each sheet signed Oju (by order) Eisho zu and published by Izumiya Ichibei--good impressions, faded, soiled, stained, rubbed, left sheet trimmed
oban tate-e: 38 x 26cm., each approx. (5)

Provenance

Ernest F. Fenollosa, second

Lot Essay

For an example of the complete triptych of the first see Donald Jenkins et al, Mineaporisu bijutsukan, Potorando bijutsukan/Minneapolis Institute of Arts/Portland Art Museum, Ukiyo-e Shuka (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1981), pls. 103-105.

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