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Artist: Kunichika (1835-1900)
Subject: A bijin with blackened teeth.
Series: Thirty-two contemporary examples of feminine physiognomy.
Signed: Kunichika hitsu, and Toshidama seal.
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei
Date: 9/1869
Format: 24.5 x 35.5 cm.
Condition: Very good, four restored small binding holes along the left margin; very good impression and excellent colours.
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Artist: Toyonobu (1852-1886)
Subject: Akechi Sabanosuke (Mitsuharu) leading his horse across Lake Biwa.
Series: New pictures of events from the Taikoki Period.
Signed: Toyonobu ga.
Publisher: Morimoto Junzaburo.
Date: 1883
Format: Oban diptych, 44 (total width) x 34.5 cm.
Condition: Good, the vertical margins somewhat trimmed, and a tiny repair on the right panel; excellent impression and colours.
Price: € 225 ( $293 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.3)
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Artist: Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Subject: The ronin Oishi Chikara (Rikiya) at the gate of a teahouse in the Gion district in Kyoto.
Series: A hundred views of the moon.
Signed: Yoshitoshi, and artist’s seal ‘Taiso’.
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon.
Date: 10/1885 (on this slightly later impression only the month is indicated).
Format: 24.8 x 37 cm.
Condition: Good, with wide margins; good impression and very good colours, with burnishing and embossing.
Price: € 240 ( $312 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.3)
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Artist: Sadahiro (act. c. 1828-1851).
Subject: Mimasu Gennosuke I as Hashitomi Ryosuke in the play ‘Keisei sato no funauta’.
Signed: Nanakawa Sadahiro and seal ‘Gochotei’.
Date: 1/1838.
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei.
Format : 24.3 x 36.5 cm.
Condition: Two repaired small wormholes on the left margin, otherwise very good; excellent impression and very good colours, with embossing.
Price: € 225 ( $293 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.3)