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UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI III

三代目歌川豊国

1786-1865

Subject: Two sumo wrestlers

Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as

Nuregami Chōgorō ( 濡髪長五郎 - above)

Arashi Rikan III as

Hanaregoma Chōkichi ( 放駒長吉)

Publisher: Hayashiya Shōgorō

Date: 1852,  3rd Month

Size: 14" x 9 3/4"

Condition: Good, with some trimming and small holes.

There are other copies of this print in the Victoria and Albert Museum,

the École des beaux-arts in Paris, Waseda University,
Ritsumeikan University, the Edo-Tokyo Museum

and  the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

$300.00

SOLD!

 

 

 

 

 

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