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            Various artists                  Various Osaka artists of the 19th   Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833-1904)
                                             century
            a) Twenty-four single and nine double                             a) Ôban triptych. Title: Kame no tara-
            page album illustrations in black and   Four chûban and one chûban diptych.   muki. Kabuki actors as turtles in a pond,
            white and in colour. Themes include:   Actors in theatre plays. Signed by   circling around a sake dish decorated
            animals, poets, mythological stories and   Sadanobu I, Masanobu, Hirosada and   with longevity character. Signed: Ikkei-
            shunga. b) Koban. Kintoki watching a   Yoshitaki. (4)             sai Yoshiiku ga; Chôkarô Yoshiiku ga.
            cock fight. Signed: Kuniyoshi ga. Seal:                           Publisher: Mori-Hon. Censor and date:
            toshidama. c) Four ko-yotsugiri, mostly   Provenance              aratame, V/1864. b) Ôban. Series: Edo
            shunga. d) Chûban, yoko-e. Crowd   Collection Dr. Heribert Vogt   sunago kodomo asobi. Children playing
            in a city. e) Ôban, harimaze-e. f) Four   € 100 – 150                             Foto online  with straw hoops. Signed: Yoshiiku
            modern prints on thin paper in single                             ga. Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô. Block
            colours. (44)                                                     carver: Koizumi Kanegorô. Censor and
                                             208                              date: aratame, V/1860. (2)
            Provenance
            Three pages with collector’s seal Helmut   Gosôtei Hirosada (act. 1826-1863)  € 1.000 – 1.200
            Wilmes, one with collector’s seal Tony   a) Four chûban. Actors in plays and
            Straus-Negbaur                   actors’ portraits. Signed: Hirosada. One
                                             with artist’s seal. b) 19.5 x 25.8 cm.   R 209A
            € 350 – 400                             Foto online               Utagawa Yoshitora (1836–1887)
                                             Actor as Manzai. Signed: Hirosada. Seal.
                                             Publisher: Kinkadô Konishi. (5)
                                                                              a) Three ôban from the series Bango
            206                                                               wakai, showing a French couple, two
            Various 19th century artists of the   € 300 – 400                             Foto online  Russian soldiers and two Chinese.
            Utagawa School                                                    Signed: Yoshitora ga. Publisher:
                                                                              Yamashiroya Jinbei. 1863. b) Two ôban
            Four ôban, yoko-e and tate-e, two aiban.
            Kuniyasu: Counting coins. Kunisato:                               and a chûban from different series,
            Dressing woman. Yoshikane?: Ken gestu-                            showing an English, a French and an
            res. Kiyomitsu: No and kabuki scenes.                             American woman on horseback. Signed:
            Unknown: Sasaki Shirô Takatsuna on                                Yoshitora ga. c) One fragment with a
            horseback. Unknown: Votive plaque. (6)                            foreign ship. (6)
                                                                              € 450 – 500                             Foto online
            Provenance
            One print with collector’s seal Helmut
            Wilmes, one with seal of Japan Gallery,
            London
            € 250 – 300                             Foto online

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