KATSUKAWA SHUNEI: oban tate-e (37.5 x 24.2cm.); full-length portraits of wrestlers from the Western Group, depicting Raiden Tameemon on the right and Ashiwatari Katsugoro on the left, their names emblazoned on their aprons, signed Shunei ga and published by Toshimaya Bunjiemon--good impression, slightly faded, toned, trimmed and worn around the edges

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KATSUKAWA SHUNEI: oban tate-e (37.5 x 24.2cm.); full-length portraits of wrestlers from the Western Group, depicting Raiden Tameemon on the right and Ashiwatari Katsugoro on the left, their names emblazoned on their aprons, signed Shunei ga and published by Toshimaya Bunjiemon--good impression, slightly faded, toned, trimmed and worn around the edges

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Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, fig. 40