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Lot 421
A Group of Japanese Woodblock Prints by Kunisada, Hiroshige, and Keishu
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Includes a woodblock print by Keishu, circa 1900, geisha lying on floor reading a book (three folding lines evident down the center of the print; some pink color bleeding on sides of print), and a woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada of the Kannon (the Bodhisattva of Compassion) in the form of a contemporary woman riding a white elephant coloring a golden lotus blossom branch to a man kneeling with his hands in prayer (a horizontal fold line across the center of print; probably the left side of a triptych), and a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige from the series "Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets" (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu) (a few areas of loss around edges.)
all framed under glass, not examined outside of frame.

DOA: 21 x 15.5 in. (largest)