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| Artist: | Eisui Ichirakusai (a.c. 1800) |
| Title: | Lovers Konami and Rikiya- last meeting before Rikiyas death in battle |
| Series: | Bijin Awase Joruri Kagami |
| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Maruya Bunaemon |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Maruya Bunaemon |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Aiban
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| Format (this edition): | Aiban |
| DB artwork code: | 38126 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Monday, 1 August 2005
A Mirror of the Joruri: The Two Doomed Lovers
Artist: Eisui
Format: Aiban tate-e: 14" x 9" approx
Subject: From the series Bijin Awase Joruri Kagami, against a gray background, the bust portraits of the lovers Konami and Rikiya at their last meeting before Rikiya's death in battle. Like all of Eisui's designs, of great delicacy and elegance. Not known to Brandt when he compiled 'Eishi and His School', he lists 6 other designs from the set. Extremely rare.
Publisher: Maruya Bunaemon
Date: late 1790's
Condition: Full size. Light wear and creases. Two minute wormholes. An unobtrusive stain bottom right corner. Minor marks and flaws. Good state of preservation.
Colour: Good
Impression: Good |
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