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Ikeda EISEN (1790 - 1848) from: "Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido with a beautiful woman each" (Bijin Tokaido)
- station no. 22: Okabe -

Signed:                      Keisai Eisen ga
Date:                          1840-42
Publisher:                Tsuta-ya Kichizo
Size:                          oban tate-e (36. 5 x 24. 5 cms / c. 14 3/8" x 9 5/8")


Impression:              fine, crisp
Colors:                      excellent
Condition:                 fine

- Excellent FIRST EDITION impression in superb colors. -
A fine first edition print with extremely well preserved colors, published by Japan's foremost publishing firm of the time, Tsuta-ya, which had published milestones in ukiyo-e history, by artists like Utamaro and Sharaku, a.o.

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