Japanese Print "Looking as if she wants a drink" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Artist:Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title:Looking as if she wants a drink
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Source:Japanese Art Open Database
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Thirty-two aspects of customs and manners 'Looking as if she wants a drink - the appearance of a town geisha, a so-called wine server, in the Ansei era' (1854 - 60) Signed: Yoshitoshi ga Artist's seal: Taiso Publisher: Tsunashima Kamekichi Dated: 1888 Size: c. 37. 5 x 26 cms / 14 3/4" x 10 1/4" Condition: Very fine impression, colors and condition, Full size with wide margins. - FIRST EDITION. Ref. No: # 551450 Price: ? 2,200.00 According to Stevenson, the earliest edition of this series has a descriptive cartouche with three diagonal colored areas. These cartouches contain the name of the print (actually, the "type" of woman illustrated in the design) as well as the era in which the image is set. Adjacent to the three color cartouche is the series cartouche, which looks like a tassled cypresswood signboard. Later impressions have a two color cartouche, and even later printings come with a solid grey cartouche.
