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KORYÛSAI, Isoda
(fl. 1770-80) 		Two lovers on a boat landing at night
    (print detail)
Signed:                        Koryû ga
Date:                             c. 1774
Size:                             hashira-e (c. 67. 5 x 12 cms)


Condition:
Very good impression, good colors (partly faded), paper slighty toned,
very few minor marks, occasional faint color bleed along key block
lines around the blue colored areas only, else very good condition.
Two lovers stand on a boat landing at night. Above the clouds the full moon is rising, with three crows silhouetted against it.

Other impressions of this design are illustrated in:
Margaret O. Gentles, Buckingham Collection - vol II, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1965; p. 229, no. 108.
Frederick W. Gookin, Catalogue of Mosle Collection, pl. CLXI, no. 1980; Leipzig, 1927.

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