Lot 119
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KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.8 x 29.6cm.); a beauty in a mirror with a sprinkled mica background arranging her hair, signed Chooro Kuniyoshi ga and published by Ibaya Senzaburo--fine impression and color, binding holes on left, two minute holes in the upper right margin
KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.8 x 29.6cm.); a beauty in a mirror with a sprinkled mica background arranging her hair, signed Chooro Kuniyoshi ga and published by Ibaya Senzaburo--fine impression and color, binding holes on left, two minute holes in the upper right margin

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KUNIYOSHI: aiban uchiwa-e (22.8 x 29.6cm.); a beauty in a mirror with a sprinkled mica background arranging her hair, signed Chooro Kuniyoshi ga and published by Ibaya Senzaburo--fine impression and color, binding holes on left, two minute holes in the upper right margin

Lot Essay

Other images from the same set, of a mother and baby, and a woman trimming her hairline, are illustrated in Suzuki Juzo, Kuniyoshi (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1992), pls. 280 and 281; and Suzuki Juzo, Kunisada/Kuniyoshi/Eisen, Ukiyo-e taikei, vol. 10, (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1974), pl. 44; a beauty applying powder is in Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten (Utagawa Kuniyoshi exhibition) (Tokyo: Riccar Art Museum, 1978), no. 172.