KATSUKAWA SHUNEI AND KITAGAWA UTAMARO: oban tate-e (38 x 25.7 cm. ea. approx.); a full length portrait in street clothes of the wrestler Onogawa Saisuke with a boy attendant named Toragatake Uzo, in his ninth year, signed Shunei ga and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo, a print of the wrestler Sendagawa displaying his agility to two beauties by grasping a fan with his teeth while balanced on one foot, a joint work signed Utamaro hitsu (the beauties) and Shunei ga (the wrestler), and another portrait of Yotsuguruma and Shiogame, also signed Shunei ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi- good impressions, color faded, some minor worming and stains, the last worn and toned

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KATSUKAWA SHUNEI AND KITAGAWA UTAMARO: oban tate-e (38 x 25.7 cm. ea. approx.); a full length portrait in street clothes of the wrestler Onogawa Saisuke with a boy attendant named Toragatake Uzo, in his ninth year, signed Shunei ga and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo, a print of the wrestler Sendagawa displaying his agility to two beauties by grasping a fan with his teeth while balanced on one foot, a joint work signed Utamaro hitsu (the beauties) and Shunei ga (the wrestler), and another portrait of Yotsuguruma and Shiogame, also signed Shunei ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi- good impressions, color faded, some minor worming and stains, the last worn and toned

Lot Essay

For another impression of the collaborative work by Utamaro and Shunei see Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, figs. 58a and b; Narazaki, Muneshige and Wakamori Taro, eds., Ozumo (Tokyo: Gakken, 1977), color plate, p. 179