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Artist: Takane Koji (1902-1979)
Subject: Hototogisu (Cuckoo). A young beauty by an andon listens to the distant call of a cuckoo.
Signed: Koji, and seal ‘Koji’ (top left), Takane Koji hitsu (at bottom on the left margin).
Publisher: Daireisha
Date: 1930s
Printer: Ono Hikojiro
Carver: Maeda Kentaro
Format: 26.2 x 39.9 cm.
Condition: Very good; very good impression and excellent colours, with embossing and beautiful bokashi.
Price: € 475 ( $618 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.3)
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Artist: Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Subject: Looking eager to meet someone; a courtesan of the Kaei Period.
Series: Thirty-two aspects of customs and manners.
Signed: Yoshitoshi ga, and artist’s seal ‘Taiso’.
Publisher: Tsunashima Kamekichi.
Date:10/1888.
Format: 23.5 x 35.5 cm.
Condition: Minor trimming and some thinning along the right margin, otherwise very good; very good impression (first state) and excellent colours.
Price: € 475 ( $618 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.3)
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Artist: Shuntei (1873-1914)
Subject: Women by a mountain stream.
Series: Customs and manners.
Signed: Shuntei Ryoshi, and artist’s seal.
Publisher: Fukuda Hatsujiro
Date: 1898
Format: 23.5 x 34.7 cm.
Condition: Very good; excellent impression and very good colours, with a silvery pigment and burnishing.
Price: € 195 ( $254 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.3)
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Artist: Eisen (1790-1848)
Subject: A geisha dressed in a garment decorated with butterfly and flower motifs. Both the text in the black cartouche and the poem refer to autumn.
Signed: Eisen ga.
Publisher: Nakajimaya.
Date: mid 1820s.
Format: 22.5 x 34.3 cm.
Condition: Good, two or three very small paper repairs; very good impression and colours.
Price: € 550 ( $715 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.3)