Untitled series of busts of beautiful women

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

1831

This series consists of only two designs, both of which exist in more than one state. The series is not listed in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).  The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. 

 

Description: Head and shoulders of a geisha holding a sake cup with a poem by Umenoya Kakuju inscribed above

 

Another state of the above print

 

Description: Bust of a courtesan  

 

 

Another state of the above print

 

Yet another state of the above print

 

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