Lot 117
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KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.8 x 29.5cm.); a woman in the evening on a boat enjoying green soybeans, from the series Ukiyo hakkai "Eight nocturnal trysts", signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Ibaya Senzaburo--fine impression and color, minute hole on upper right margin, a few minute ink smudges
KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.8 x 29.5cm.); a woman in the evening on a boat enjoying green soybeans, from the series Ukiyo hakkai "Eight nocturnal trysts", signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Ibaya Senzaburo--fine impression and color, minute hole on upper right margin, a few minute ink smudges

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KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.8 x 29.5cm.); a woman in the evening on a boat enjoying green soybeans, from the series Ukiyo hakkai "Eight nocturnal trysts", signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and published by Ibaya Senzaburo--fine impression and color, minute hole on upper right margin, a few minute ink smudges

Lot Essay

Another image from the same set of the Niwaka festival in the Yoshiwara, is illustrated in Narazaki Muneshige, Victoria and Albert Museum II, Ukiyo-e masterpieces in European collections (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989), pl. 36, and in R. A. Crighton, The Floating World, Japanese popular prints 1700-1900 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973), no. II 10.