KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: o-tanzaku (37.2 x 16.2cm.); a full-length profile portrait of Tanikaze Kajinosuke of Edo, Nipponichi (number one in Japan), wearing a black robe and striped jacket (haori) as he strolls in the street, signed Shunsho ga and published by Toshimaya Bunjiemon--very good impression, slightly faded, otherwise good condition

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KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO: o-tanzaku (37.2 x 16.2cm.); a full-length profile portrait of Tanikaze Kajinosuke of Edo, Nipponichi (number one in Japan), wearing a black robe and striped jacket (haori) as he strolls in the street, signed Shunsho ga and published by Toshimaya Bunjiemon--very good impression, slightly faded, otherwise good condition

Provenance

Hayashi Tadamasa, sold Paris, Hotel Drouot, 6 June, 1902, cat. no. 546

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 5

Although the first to be granted the title, Tanikaze was actually the fourth yokozuna (grand champion). Three wrestlers, Akashi, Ayakawa and Murayama were awarded the title retroactively.