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Materials:

Sumizuri-e woodcut

Size Notes:

ooban tate-e

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed Onkashi dokoro Asakusa Komagata-cho Masaruya (the Masaruya confectioner in Komagata in Asakusa [Edo]), and the side of the box under the beauty's legs is of a monkey (saru), a play on one syllable of the name; the right side of the print signed Nihon giga Kaigetsu matsuyo Dohan zu (an amusing picture drawn in the Japanese style by Dohan, a "last leaf" of Kaigetsu[do]), sealed Dohan

Condition:

fine impression, some restored worming

Literature:

Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection, vol. 1 (London and New York: Philip Wilson Publishers for Sotheby Parke Bernet and Rizzoli International, 1976), no. 21.

Provenance:

Henri Vever (1854-1943), sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part 1, 26 March 1974, no. 9.