Three Japanese Surimono, Edo-Meiji Period
日本江户时代柳川重信（1787-1832）、安藤广重（1798-1858）、高岛千春（1780-1858）摺物三种

Edo-Meiji Period

Comprising: Yanagawa Shigenobu (Japanese, 1787-1832), the courtesan Konami of Kurahashiya holding a pair of drumsticks in the Osaka Shinmachi Nerimono (Costume Parade in the Osaka Shinmachi), woodblock printed in colors, with metallic inks and gauffrage, seal Yanagawa lower right, mounted on card; the second Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1798-1858), depicting a female figure, possibly Okame, with a cockerel and hen, before a small fire obscuring the sun, woodblock printed in colors, with metallic inks and gauffrage, unmounted; the third, Takashima Chiharu (Japanese, 1780-1858), depicting a Bugaku Ayakiri dancer, with three seals Ayakiri, Chiharu(?), Ryusai, woodblock printed in colors, with metallic inks and gauffrage. All unframed.
Note:
For another example of the first print, dated 1822, see Musee Rietberg # 2019.56; for another depiction of Konami in this costume by Yanagawa Shigenobu, and a discussion where she is described as holding drumsticks preparing to mount the first float of the costume parade in the Shinmachi pleasure quarter of Osaka, see the print in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of art, 2020.308. For a related print, with a similar seal, see the surimono in the British Museum 1906,1220,0.299. For a closely related example of the Bugaku dancer, see Harvard Art Museum 1933.4.1933; for other related surimono by Chiharu, see those in the British Museum, 1907,0531,0.526 to 539.

Sheets 8 1/8 x 7 in., 20.5 x 17.7 cm; 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 in., 19.7 x 26.6 cm; 8 1/2 x 7 7/16 in., 21.5 x 18.8 cm.

This lot is located in New York.

Three Japanese Surimono, Edo-Meiji Period日本江户时代 柳川重信（1787-1832）、安藤广重（1798-1858）、高岛千春（1780-1858）摺物三种

Three Japanese Surimono, Edo-Meiji Period
日本江户时代柳川重信（1787-1832）、安藤广重（1798-1858）、高岛千春（1780-1858）摺物三种