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| Title |
"Beauty Clutching Two Samurai Swords" (given name) |
| Series |
"Lives of Modern People" ("Kinsei Jimbutsu Shi") |
| Date |
December 13, 1887 |
| Publisher |
Yamamoto Shinbun (Tokyo) |
| Carver |
Enkatsu |
| Image Size |
8 3/4 x 13 |
| Impression |
Excellent. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading to cartouche, shoji screens, and tatami-mat floor; burnishing to black sword sheaths and shoji handles; "gauffrage" to white collar and cartouch box; very crisp, highly detailed carving of hair-lines and other fine details. |
| Condition |
Very good+++. Excellent colors. (A single repaired small wormage lower right margin--otherwise flawless.) Full original margins, unbacked, very clean. |
| Reference/Illus |
na |
| Comments |
Exquisite. Geisha is shown clutching two (wakizashi and katana) swords. This print is the 15th in a series of only 20 prints that Yoshitoshi designed as a suppliment ot the Yamato Newspaper. |
| Item # |
CG-997 |
| Price |
$650 |
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