Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: Warabi
Date: 1852
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Kisokaido Series: # 4 Warabi Artist: Kuniyoshi Format: Oban tate-e: 14.5" x 9.75" Subject: Inuyama Dosetsu seated amid flames and smoke, hands clasped, and in his mouth magic pine-sprigs wrapped in paper (aomatsuba). Inset village road. Considered one of the great masterpieces of the set. Publisher: Idzutsu-ya Shokichi Date: 1852 Condition: Fine colors. Full size with a margin at top. Very minor creases, soils, marks and flaws. Album binding holes along left edge. A tiny wormhole towards centre base. Generally very good state of preservation. Impression: Very good impression with gauffrage and use of mica.