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Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)
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Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)
Nine prints: four half-length portraits of beauties, from the series Tosei kobutsu hakkei (Eight views of today's favorite things); four half-length portraits of beauties, one holding a cup in her right hand, one with a robe of lotus-pattern design that refers to the poet Fun'ya no Asayasu, one applying make-up, one looking over her left shoulder, from the series Bijin kaichu kagami (Pocket-sized mirror of beauties) and subtitled Jisei rokkasen (Six modern beauties); one print, a beauty, from the series Bien senjoko [a brand of face powder], each signed Keisai Eisen ga and published by Izumiya Ichibei--generally good impressions, some faded, soiled, stained, creased, rubbed, worming
oban tate-e: 38.6 x 25.8cm., each approx. (9)
Nine prints: four half-length portraits of beauties, from the series Tosei kobutsu hakkei (Eight views of today's favorite things); four half-length portraits of beauties, one holding a cup in her right hand, one with a robe of lotus-pattern design that refers to the poet Fun'ya no Asayasu, one applying make-up, one looking over her left shoulder, from the series Bijin kaichu kagami (Pocket-sized mirror of beauties) and subtitled Jisei rokkasen (Six modern beauties); one print, a beauty, from the series Bien senjoko [a brand of face powder], each signed Keisai Eisen ga and published by Izumiya Ichibei--generally good impressions, some faded, soiled, stained, creased, rubbed, worming
oban tate-e: 38.6 x 25.8cm., each approx. (9)