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Sumô Wrestler Tanikaze and Naniwaya Okita


「谷風 なにわ屋おきた」
Katsukawa Shunchô (Japanese, active about 1780–1801)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1794 (Kansei 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.4 x 25.6 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Frederick L. Jack Fund
Accession Number63.1075
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taisei 6 (1931), #28; the other print of the pair: TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #1722; Bickford, Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters (1994), pl. 17; Michener, Floating World (1954), #52
DescriptionOne print of a pair; the other depicts wrestler Onogawa and noted beauty Takashima Ohisa.
Signed Shunchô ga
春潮画