Lot 11
11
KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban yoko-e (23.2 x 36.8 cm.); Nihon ichi Edo ozumo dohyoiri ushiro shomen no zu "The best in Japan, the eastern capital [Edo], view, from the back, of the dohyo-iri", signed Katsu Shunsho ga and published by Tsuruya- good impressions, color faded, center fold and surface creases, stains, small tears restored

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KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: oban yoko-e (23.2 x 36.8 cm.); Nihon ichi Edo ozumo dohyoiri ushiro shomen no zu "The best in Japan, the eastern capital [Edo], view, from the back, of the dohyo-iri", signed Katsu Shunsho ga and published by Tsuruya- good impressions, color faded, center fold and surface creases, stains, small tears restored

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 12

The last of Shunsho's known designs of the subject and the only one known to have repeated an earlier view of the same scene.