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KUNISADA, Utagawa (1786 - 1865)		Woman holding a tray from: 'A Game of Juroku-musashi'
		Signed:                        ki-o Toyokuni ga                                       ('seventy years old Toyokuni') Publisher:                   Hirooka-ya Kosuke Date:                             1862 Size:                             oban (c. 37. 5 x 25. 5 cms) Condition: Very fine impression, color and condition, printed on thick DELUXE PAPER, with lacquer overprinting, areas of blind printing. Full size. - MINT. Considered a stylisticly important work from the artist's late period. ref. no.: # 53 1134 Price:  € 1,150.00

From a rare series of portraits of women of Kunisada's later period, luxuriously printed on thick deluxe paper. The series' complete title reads: Mitate juroku musashi no uchi ('A mitate of the sixteen points of the compass on a children's game board').

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