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Keisai EISEN
(1790 - 1848) 		The courtesan, Kicho, from the Owari-ya playing the koto

Signed:                     Keisai Eisen ga
Publisher:                Tsuta-ya Kichizo
Censor seal:            kiwame
Date:                          c. 1830
Size:                          ôban tate-e  (c. 39 x 26 cms)


Condition:
Fine impression with fine colors, minimal soil,
else fine condition. - Full paper size.
Print from the series: "Keisei dochu Sugoroku" (The game of Sugoroku, an allusion to the 'Green Houses'); "Mitate Yoshiwara gojusan tsui" (Comparison of the Yoshiwara with the stations along the Tokaido). The inset shows the station, Fujieda.
Lit.: Hendrik Lühl: "Geishas und Kurtisanen", 1983, p. 53, illustrated in color.

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