Untitled series of beauties with framed insets

Publisher: Ezaki-ya Kichibei

c. 1824

This untitled series is not listed in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961), but is listed on page 122 of Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium by Andreas Marks (Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 2011). The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

	Description: Beauty seated in a kotatsu watching the snow
	Description: Miyatogawa
	Description: The courtesan Monhiko of the Ômi-ya House in front of a paper lantern inscribed “Ômi-ya Monhiko”

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