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151 Views in the Environs of Edo: the last landscape print by Yoshikazu
of Saruwakacho from the series Famous Places in the Eastern
151 Capital; variously published, variously signed, all within plastic sleeves
KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753-1806) mounted onto card. The smallest 21cm x 34cm (8¼in x 13 3/8in),
Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1801 the largest 39cm x 26.5cm (13 3/8in x 10 1/9in). (23).
An oban tate-e print of the courtesan Tsukioka of Hyogoya from the
series Seiro bijin meika awase (Famous Flowers of Beauty from the £2,000 - 3,000
Pleasure Quarters), published by Iwataoya Kisaburo, with censor’s JPY280,000 - 410,000
seal kiwame; signed Utamaro hitsu. US$2,500 - 3,700
36.5cm x 25.3cm (14 3/8in x 10in).
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£1,000 - 1,500 KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753-1806), KOIKAWA HARUMASA
JPY140,000 - 210,000 (ACTIVE CIRCA 1801-1818) AND TAMAGAWA SHUCHO
US$1,200 - 1,900 (ACTIVE CIRCA 1789-1804)
Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th to early 19th century
152 Comprising seven bijinga hashira-e (pillar prints): four by Utamaro, one
KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753-1806), depicting a young girl and an insect seller, the second of the two lovers
ANDO HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) AND OTHERS Komurasaki and Gonpachi, the third of the two lovers Osome and
Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th to late 19th century Hisamatsu, the last of the two courtesans Komurasaki and Wakamursaki
Comprising 23 oban bijinga and landscape prints: five bijinga by from the House of Tama; one attributed to Utamaro depicting two lovers;
Utamaro, including one from the series Kyokun oya no megane (A one by Harumasa depicting two lovers, the last by Shucho depicting
Parent’s Moralising Spectacles), one from the series Bijin ichidai the two lovers Yugiri and Izaemon; variously published, variously signed,
gojusantsugi (Beauties One by One: Comparisons of the 53 Stations of some signatures partially rubbed and cut, all contained inside plastic
the Tokaido) and one from the series Furyu nanakomachi (Fashionable sleeves mounted on to card. The smallest 59cm x 11cm (23¼in x 4¼in),
Seven Komachi); one bijinga by Utamaro or Utamaro II, titled Rendai the largest 62cm x 13cm (24 3/8in x 5 1/8in). (7).
senshoku rokkasen (Six Poems on Love); three bijin-ga by/attributed
to Utamaro II, including one depicting the courtesan Ariwara from £1,500 - 2,000
the House of Tsuruya; further seven bijinga by members of the JPY210,000 - 280,000
Utamaro school, comprising six by Tsukimaro/Kikumaro and one by US$1,900 - 2,500
Shikimaro; six landscape prints by Hiroshige comprising Atagoshita
and Fukagawa Kiba from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (100 Famous Illustrated on page 82.
Places in Edo), Kawasaki from the Reisho Tokaido series, Sagami from
the series Famous Places in the 60-odd Provinces, Gion yashiro from
the series Famous Places in Kyoto and one from the series Eight

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