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Kitagawa Utamaro (1754–1806) Kitagawa Utamaro I (1754–1806) Isoda Koryûsai (1735–1790)
or Kitagawa Utamaro II (d. 1831)
Yotsugiri. Series: Jûnigatsu Chûban. A beauty encouraging a bird
shikishi waka. Girls with a Ôban. Series: Kôkei sansho. Three into a cage. Signed: Koryûsai ga. 1770–
shamisen next to a flower laughing women on a bridge. Parody of 1882. Good impression, colours a little
arrangement; autumnal poem. “Three Laughers at Tiger Brook” (inset, faded, backed, discoloured along edges,
Signed: Utamaro hitsu. Several reflecting a painting by Sesshû). Signed: a little stained to the corners
prints from this series are in the Utamaro hitsu. Publisher: Tsuruya Kin-
British Museum collection. Good suke. Good impression, colours faded, € 800 – 1.000
impression, colours faded, blind blind printing, yellowed, centre fold
printing on kimono, restored at reinforced, several holes and tears, some
lower margin, backed, mounted reinforced, traces of former mounting,
at upper margins in mat partially reinforced
€ 300 – 400 € 400 – 450
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