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    8 May 2001

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    • Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
    Lot 24

    Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

    1839-1892

    Price realised

    NLG 1,528

    Estimate

    NLG 1,300 - NLG 1,800

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    Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
    1839-1892
    The gardener's daughter Okiyo meeting a foreigner who desired her to be his concubine, from the series Yubin hochi shinbun (Postal News), number 661
    Signed Taiso Yoshitoshi and sealed, published by Kinshodo in 1875/76 - good impression and very good colours
    Oban tate-e: 35.9 x 24 cm.

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    Lot Essay

    This series was distributed by the newspaper Yubin hochi shinbun, describing and illustrating sensational news events. For a description of the complete series, see E. van den Ing and R. Schaap, Beauty and Violence, Society for Japanese Arts, Eindhoven 1992, p.113-114

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