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Kano Seichisai Dosho - Iris. Mid 19th century.
Surimono. 20.2 x 21.8 cm. Fine impression with blind-printing and exquisite bokashi. Very good condition. This is a fragment of a larger surimono with the text removed.
$680.

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Yashima Gakutei (Ca.1786-1868)- Two Dancers Performing the Sparrow Dance, Suzumi adori. The top left sheet from a hexaptych. Circa 1827-28.
Square surimono. Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour. Very good condition. Forrer, Surimono, Rijskmuseum, Amsterdam, no. 455. According to Forrer, the gold bands with the black border suggest that the male dancers are caught in a bird cage.
$2,200

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Suzuki Nanrei (1775-1884)- Pony Dancer. From a series titled, "An Album of Pictures for the Asakusa Group."1813.
Square surimono. Fine impression. Very good colour and condition. The only other recorded impression is illustrated in Keyes, Surimono, Spencer Museum of Art, plate 42.

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Utagawa Toyohiro (1773-1828)- New Year's Pine. Circa 1810's
Square surimono. Fine impression with the pine saplings extensively printed in metallics. Very good colour and condition. Apparently unrecorded.

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Yanagawa Shigenobu (1787-1832)- Two Women with a Cat. No. 4, Usugumo. From the series Meiba soroe (Famous Horses). 1834
Square surimono. Fine impression with metallic printing. Very good colour and condition. Faint vertical centrefold.
$1,400

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- A Group of Mice. 1852. Surimono with original wrapper titledShichifukujin (Seven Lucky Gods).
Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour. Very good condition. The mice at top are dragging away a metal seal with Zeshin’s name in red, displaying the artist’s typical wit. Apparently unrecorded.
$1,450

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Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844)- Book of Poetry, Spring Section (Haru no bu). Circa 1820�s. Squaresurimono.
The Private World of Surimono, Yale, no. 154. Fine impression with metallic printing and embossing. Very good colour and condition. In addition to the Yale impression, there is another example in the MFA, Boston.

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- A Rat with Daikoku's Mallet and New Year's Lucky Jewels. 1864.
Surimono with original wrapper. Fine impression, colour and condition.
$500

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- A Lotus in Flower. 1850.
Long surimono with original wrapper titled Tamukei no eda. Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour and condition with the usual folds as the print would have originally been placed in a wrapper for distribution. Unrecorded.
$1,280

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- Morning Glory. Circa 1860ï's
Surimono fan print. Fine impression, colour and condition. A rare format and apparently unrecorded.
$1,280

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- Still-life of Gardening Tool and Plum. Surimono
Circa 1860. Fine impression and colour. Very good condition. Surimono.
$350

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Signature unread - A Monkey Riding a Hobby Horse. Signature Unread
Circa 1870. Fine impression and colour. Very good condition with a few small stains. Surimono.
$350

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- A Moonflower (Yugao) on a Fan. Circa 1860's.
Surimono. 19.2 x 26 cm. Fine impression, colour and condition. This unusual print appears to be an announcement requesting images for a Kyogakai, a social gathering where a group of people would draw images to represent a particular theme.The characters read Tsuizen Kyoga awase (A Commemorative kyoga picture-matching game). It appears that images from the Tale of Genji are being requested—the flower on the fan is yugao, one of the chapters of the novel. Surimono.
$450.

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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)- A Woman Holding a Bowl. From the series Hyakunin bijo (One Hundred Beauties)
Circa 1830. Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour and condition.
$800

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Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)- A Woman with an Umbrella. From the series Tosei sanjurokkasen (Thirty-six Poets in Contemporary Style)
Circa 1830. Koban. Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour and condition.
$680

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Yamagata Soshin (1818-1862)- Carp
1861. Large surimono. 43.3 x 56.9 cm. Fine impression and colour. Very good condition with the usual folds and slight creasing.
$680

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Nagayama Koin (1765-1849)- Cranes in Flight. 1825.
Large surimono. 43.4 x 57.5 cm. Gerstle, Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage, British Museum, 231b; Keyes, Ainsworth Collection, Oberlin, no. 141. Fine impression with embossing. Fine colour. Very good condition with the usual folds. This is one half of an impressive surimono diptych commemorating the retirement of Nakamura Utaemon III. For an extensive discussion of the diptych see Gerstle (op. cit., page 248).
$800

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Ryuryuko Shinsai (Active 1799-1823)- Cranes Flying above Pine Trees at Sunrise. Circa 1810's.
Square surimono. Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour and condition. We have been unable to locate any additional impressions of this design.

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- Brush with plum blossom. A snake year, probably 1845.
Square surimono. 19.7 x 18.1 cm. Fine impression. Very good colour and condition. Pre-Meiji, square surimono by the artist are rare. One additional impression is known with different poetry which was apparently printed two years later in a goat year.
$680

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Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)- A Fisherman with a Youth Pulling Boats. 1870's.
A Fisherman with a Youth Pulling Boats. 1870’s. Fragment of a long surimono. 19 x 25.3 cm. Fine impression, colour and condition (save for the trimming). The calligraphy at left, as often happens, has been trimmed off.
$390.

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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)- A Standing Beauty. From the series Hyakunin bijo (One Hundred Beauties). Circa 1830.
Koban. Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour and condition.
$800.

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Yashima Gakutei (Ca.1786-1868)- Carp Swimming Among Water Weeds. Circa 1820s.
Square surimono. 20.9 x 18.2 cm. Fine impression with extensive metallic printing. Fine colour. Very good condition. Genuine impressions can be distinguished from the deceptive Group A copy by the flaw in the block at lower left in the former. This example closely corresponds to that in the Gerhard Pulverer Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ex Hayashi and Havemeyer).

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Yashima Gakutei (Ca.1786-1868)- Courtesan Admiring a Potted Plum Tree. Sosenko (Su Xiangong). From the series Keisei mitate Ressenden shichiban no uchi (Courtesans Views as the Immortals of Ressenden, One of Seven). 1824.
Square surimono. Carpenter, Reading Surimono, no. 45. Fine impression with metallic printing. Very good colour and condition. This the second of 3 editions. The first has a background of cranes and the third a plain brown ground. A similar impression to ours is illustrated in Reading Surimono.

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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)- A Woman Holding an Umbrella. From the series Hyakunin bijo (One Hundred Beauties)
Circa 1830. Koban. 18.7 x 12.7cm. Fine impression with metallic printing and embossing on the outline of the figure. Fine colour and condition.

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Yamanaka Shonen (Active from 1806—1820’s)- Seated Heron. Early 19th century.
Square surimono. Fine impression. Original fold mark. Very good condition. Apparently unrecorded. Other surimono by the artist are in the collections of the British Museum, Minneapolis Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)- The Sixth Danjuro (Rokudaime kodama Danjuro) Performing in the Play Shibaraku. Second edition
Circa 1830. Square surimono. Fine impression. Very good colour and condition. Album backing. Margins trimmed to borderline at top and left.

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Anonymous Shijo School Artist (Circa 1830)- Hibiscus Circa 1830.
Large surimono. 36.7 x 25.7 cm. Fine impression and colour. Slight trimming at top; backed, the usual folds. Very good condition. Provenance: Louis Gonse, Premier Vente, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1924, lot.132 ; Andre Spoerry (1891-1940).

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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)- Singing Courtesan with Attendant Playing a Shamisen. Circa 1830.
Fine impression with metallic printing. Very good colour and condition. Square surimono.

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Ryuryuko Shinsai (Active 1799-1823)- A Beauty Preparing Tea. Circa 1820.
Square surimono. Fine impression with metallic printing. Good colour. Very good condition. We have been unable to locate another impression of this design.

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Yashima Gakutei (Ca.1786-1868)- Princess Fujitsubo in Court Costume Holding a Fan. Circa 1820's.
Square surimono. Fine impression with metallic printing. Very good colour and condition with some slight soiling in top right corner. Additional impressions are in the Met and the MFA, Boston.

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Yanagawa Shigenobu II (Active 1820s)- Two Woman, One Holding a Cat. No. 4, Usogomu (Yon Usugumo). From the series Meiba soroe (Famous Horses). 1834.
Square surimono. Fine impression with metallic printing. Good colour and condition with an old printer’s fold and a faint ink stain on the verso showing through to the recto. Another impression is in Boston.

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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)- Ichikawa Danjuro VII as I no Hanata.
1820. The left-hand sheet of a triptych. 1820. Square surinomo. 20.9 x 18.1 cm. Edo no surimono (Chiba City Art Museum), no. 255; Amsterdam/IV/145. Fine impression and colour with metallic printing. Very good condition. Trimmed to the borderline at left and re-margined.

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Utagawa Sadakage (Active 1818-1844)- A Standing Beauty.
Ca. 1830. Square surimono. Fine impression with metallic printing. Fine colour. Very good condition. Printing creases.

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Anonymous - Two Puppies.
1790. Small surimono. 13.2 x 13.6 cm. Fine impression, colour and condition. The text reads, "Produced at the residence of Shibaura on a spring day in 1790" (Kanoe inu shunjitsu Shibaura-teichu ni oite tsukuru). Another impression is in an album of surimono in the British Museum.

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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864)- Ichikawa Danjuro VII, Iwai Kumesaburo II and Matsumoto Koshiro V on the Bank of the Sumida River in Snow
From an untitled series of Settsugekka (Snow, Moon and Flowers). Circa 1825. Koban triptych. 18.2 x 37cm. Izzard, Kunisada's World, no. 45. Fine impression with extensive blind printing. Fine colour. Backed. Very good condition.