YOSHITORA UTAGAWA 歌川 芳虎 (1836–1882)

Signature: Yoshitora ga Date: 1861 Condition: very good impression, vibrant colors, faint folds, small hole close to lower right corner Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size (35,4 x 24,1 cm)

Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga Publisher: Ebisuya Shoshichi Date: 1847-52 Condition: good impression, faded colors, slight rubbing in the top right corner Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: 35,5 x 73 cm

In this composition inspired by the wildly popular 'updated' Inaka Genji, the protagonist, Mitsuujii, is seen picnicking with four female companions while enjoying an imaginary panorama which incorporates all eight of the famous views associated with the classic grouping of 'Eight Views of Omi' (or Lake Biwa). From right to left the locations are identified as: Hira, Katada, Yabase, Karasaki, Mii, Awazu, Ishiyama, and Seta. Signature: Yoshitora ga Publisher: Sawamuraya Seikichi Date Seal: 1872 Condition: excellent colors and impression, no flaws to note Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size Oban triptych (each sheet c 36,8 x 25,3 cm)

Date: mid 19th century Condition: very good impression, faded, some thinning and soiling Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Vertical ôban diptych (72,5 x 24 cm)

Date: Late Edo Period Condition: very good impression, slightly faded, faint creases Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Vertical ôban diptych (72,5 x 23,3)

Date: late Edo Period (1603 – 1868) Condition: good impression, vibrant colors Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Oban

Signature: Yoshitora ga Publisher: Ebisuya Shôshichi (Kinshôdô) Censor's Seal: combined date-aratame 1862 (Bunkyû 2) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Ôban (35 x 25,3 cm)

Series: Tôsei jûni-doki no uchi (The Twelve Hours in the Modern World) Signature: Yoshitora ga Publisher: Sawamuraya Seikichi Censor's Seal and Seal of Date: aratame, horse intercalary (1870) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Oban

Series: Tôsei jûni-doki no uchi (The Twelve Hours in the Modern World) Signature: Yoshitora ga Publisher: Sawamuraya Seikichi Censor's Seal and Seal of Date: aratame, horse intercalary (1870) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Oban (36,7 x 24,8 cm)

Series: Tôsei jûni-doki no uchi (The Twelve Hours in the Modern World) Signature: Yoshitora ga Publisher: Sawamuraya Seikichi Censor's Seal and Seal of Date: aratame, horse intercalary (1870) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Oban

Ôiso in Sagami Province: Historical Site of the Famous Poem of the Snipe Rising from the Marsh (Shigi tatsu sawa koseki); Asahina Series: Shoga gojûsan eki (Calligraphy and Pictures for the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô) Signature: Yoshitora ga Publisher: Sawamuraya Seikichi Date: Meiji 5 (1872) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Oban (35,9 x 24,1 cm)

Hara in Suruga Province: The Old Story of the Foot of Mount Fuji (Fuji no nekata koji); Yamato Takeru no Mikoto Series: Calligraphy and Pictures for the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô) Signature: Yoshitora ga Publisher: Sawamuraya Seikichi Censor's Seal and Seal of Date: Water Monkey (Jinshin, mizunoe saru) 10, Meiji 5 (1872) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Ôban

Publisher: Hiranoya Shinzō Signature: Yoshitora ga Combiend Date-aratame Cencor’s Seal: Keiō 3, 1st month (1867) Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size Ôban Triptych