Japanese print # 1
Artist: Toyokuni III (1786-1864)
Subject: The actor Sawamura Tossho II as Enya Hangan, shown in a mirror.
Series: Mirror of contemporary figures.
Signed: Toyokuni ga.
Publisher: Shorindo (Fujiokaya Keijiro).
Date: 10/1859.
The poem at top is by the actor, signed and sealed ‘Tossho’.
Format: 25.2 x 36 cm.
Condition: Very good; very good impression and colours, with embossing.
Price: € 220 ( $264 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.2)
Japanese print # 2
Artist: Utagawa Toyonobu (1859-1886)
Subject: Takeda Katsuyori in the battle at Nagashino.
Series: New pictures of events from the Taikoki Period.
Signed: Toyonobu ga, and Toshidama seal.
Publisher: Morimoto Junzaburo.
Date: 1883
Format: oban diptych, 47.7 x 35.3 cm.
Condition: Very good; excellent impression and colours.
Price: € 375 ( $450 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.2)
Japanese print # 3
Artist: Unknown
Subject: Wild geese descending, at full moon.
Signed: unsigned.
Publisher: seal unidentified (flower in a circle, at bottom right).
Date: c.1920s.
Format: 11.4 x 25.1 cm.
Condition: Good; very good impression and colours.
Compare ‘Crows, Cranes and Camellias’, pl. K 11.10, p.174, for a mirror image of this composition by Ohara Koson.
Price: € 70 ( $84 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.2)
Japanese print # 4
Artist: Eisen (1790-1848)
Subject: The courtesan Tsukasa of Ogiya.
Series: Courtesans of the Shin-Yoshiwara.
Signed: Keisai Eisen ga.
Date: c.1830.
Publisher: Ezakiya.
Format: 25 x 36.1 cm.
Condition: Some filled album-holes at right and some soil at bottom left, but generally good; very good impression and colours.
Price: € 585 ( $702 : € 1.00 = c. US $ 1.2)