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Konabe of Itamigoma as a Vendor of New Year Charms in the Form of Love Letters (Kesôbumi), from the series Costume Parade of the Shimanouchi Quarter (Shimanouchi nerimono)


「島之内ねりもの けそう文 伊丹駒 小なべ」
Ryûsai Shigeharu (Japanese, 1803–1853)
Japanese
Edo period
1836 (Tenpô 7), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 x 25.4 cm (14 1/4 x 10 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.824.12
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 125; Kamigata yakusha-e no sekai (2001), #65; Keyes 1973, #336 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.824.12, 11.26583, 17.3214.11

From a collective series by Hokuei, Hokuju, Sadahiro, Sadanobu, and Shigeharu.
Signed Ryûsai Shigeharu ga
柳斎重春画
Marks Artist's seal: Yamaguchi uji Shigeharu
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross