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UTAMARO (1754-1806): oban tate-e (38.1 x 25.4cm.); a bijin arranging her make-up holding a mirror in her arm, a kamuro behind her adjusting the ornaments in her hair, entitled Meikun keichu no Yosooi [The celebrated Yosooi's boudoir], signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Omiya Gonkuro--very good impression and good colour, light centre fold-mark, slight soiling and minor restoration

Literature

For a similar example, see Shibui, K., Ukiyoe zuten (Kazama Shobo, Tokyo, 1964), p. 162