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Lot Essay
Sold in these Rooms, 25 October 1994, lot 436
For a version of the triptych with artist's signature added and with the mark of the publisher Echizenya Kaju, 1868, see Matthi Forrer, The Baur Collection Geneva: Japanese Prints, vol. 2 (Geneva: Collections Baur, 1994), pl. G359. The catalogue entry remarks that taking a bath perfumed with iris, alluded to in the name of the bath house, on the fifth day of the fifth month, Boy's Day, was thought to banish evil spirits.
For a version of the triptych with artist's signature added and with the mark of the publisher Echizenya Kaju, 1868, see Matthi Forrer, The Baur Collection Geneva: Japanese Prints, vol. 2 (Geneva: Collections Baur, 1994), pl. G359. The catalogue entry remarks that taking a bath perfumed with iris, alluded to in the name of the bath house, on the fifth day of the fifth month, Boy's Day, was thought to banish evil spirits.