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Notes (1st edition)
Publisher (this edition): Bungei Kurabu Bungei Kurabu
Date of this item:
Notes (this edition)
These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.:
Title Lovers at Front Gate
kuchi-e
Artist Eisen Tomioka 1864-1905
Seal Artist's seal (Eisen)
Dated Ca. 1900 - 1910s
Publisher Bungei Kurabu
Medium/Technique Woodblock print
Impression Very good.
Colors Very good … shomen-zuri patterns on her hair, orange color partially oxidized.
Condition Very good … Light toning, slightly soiled, three needle size worm holes on the middle left background, two slight vertical folds usual for kuchi-e, not backed.
Description Frontispiece illustration from a popular literary magazine similar to Bungei Kurabu, which was aimed at largely female readers in Meiji - Taisho era. Here, a bijin in kimono is seeing off her lover late at night.
Width Item 10.4 inches = 26.5 cm
Height Item 8.7 inches = 22.0 cm		 Tuesday, 31 May 2005

Artist:


Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905)

Subject: Bijin at garden's gate.
Signature: Artist's seal.
Date: ca. 1900.
Size: Kuchi-e,chuban, 22x28 cm.
Conditions: Fine impression, colour and conditions.
Item no. G 3
Price: ?uro 150
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