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GAKUTEI, Yashima (1786 - 1868)	series: 'Courtesans on Parade: The Nakano-cho for the Hisakata-ya' (Hisakataya Nakanocho) print title: 'The Jewels of Suehiro of the Ogiya' (Toshidama no Ogiya uchi Suehiro)
	Signed:                    Gakutei Gyokudo Date:                         1820 Size:                         shikishiban (c. 20. 9 x 18. 6 cms / 8 1/4" x 7 3/8") Condition: Excellent impression, fine fresh colors, with extensive blind-printing, paper embossing and silver-color pigments; very fine condition. ref. no.: # K4083 Sold.

A New Year's surimono, from a set of five prints. - This print shows a sumptuously dressed courtesan with their attendants, parading through the main street of the Yoshiware pleasure district at New Year. In the background the New Year's decoration kadomatsu, pine trees and bamboo stalks roped together. Fern leaves hanging down at top. Towards the back the green bamboo blinds of the teahouses, from which they derived their names: the green houses. The title of the set is in two oblong cartouches followed by the number of the print. The title of the print is in a square cartouche, and reads: Toshidama no Ogiya uchi Suehiro ('The Jewels of Suehiro of the Ogiya'). The courtesan with two kamuro in identical robes with a rope and tassel pattern. The two poems are by Seikaitei Kamebito and Sawanoya ... mi. Quote from: 'Hokusai and His School - Japanese Prints III', Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; 1982.

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