Kitagawa Utamaro I.  (1753 - 1806)

No. akt-09-02

   
Utamaro I.		 Series:

Yûkun nana Komachi - Courtesans Compared with the Seven Episodes in the Life of the Poetess Ono no Komachi
Title:

Hyôgoya Tsukiomoi Hagino Kikuno - Tsukiomoi Hagino Kikuno from the Hyôgoya House

Details:

The sitting Oiran is reading in a book. Above her a poem by Ono no Komachi: „Kumo no ue wa arishi mukashi ni kawaranedo mishi tamadare no uchimo yukashiki”
Signature:

Utamaro hitsu
Publisher:

Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô)
Censorship: -
Size:

ôban (c.37,7 x 25,6 cm)
Date:

c. 1804
Literature:

Comp. Kiyoshi Shibui: Ukiyo-e Zuten, Vol.13 Utamaro, p. 154, u.a.
Impression:

very good, with blank printing, on thick deluxe paper  

Colours:

excellent
Condition:

slightly creased at the left margin; upper and lower margin slightly soiled
Price: €   4.900,-
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