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Suzuki Harunobu (1725–1770)

'The First Day of Spring' (Risshun), from the series 'Fashionable Poetic Immortals in the Four Seasons' (Fuzoku shiki kasen), circa 1768

Woodblock print
Signed: 'Harunobu ga'
Collector seals: Hayashi and Vever

Vertical chuban:
27.9 x 21 cm. (11 x 8 ¼ in.)
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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)

'Asahi Peak seen from Mount Hakuba' (Hakuba san yori mitaru Asahi dake), from the series 'Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series' (Tabi miyage dai sanshu), 1924

Woodblock print
Signed: 'Hasui'
Artist's seal: 'Kawase'
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo (Hotei 'B' seal, consistent with printing 1924-30)
Titled as above in left margin
Dated: 'Taisho jusannen saku' [Taisho 13] (1924)

Horizontal oban:
25.8 x 38.7 cm. (10 ⅛ x 15 ¼ in.)

£ 8,000.00

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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)

'Nakayama-Shichiri Road in Hida Province' (Hida Nakayama-Shichiri), from the series 'Souvenirs of Travel Third Series' (Tabi miyage dai sanshu), 1924

Woodblock print
Signed: 'Hasui'
Sealed: 'Kawase'
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo (Hotei 'B' seal, consistent with printing 1924-30)
Dated: 'Taisho jusannen saku' [Taisho 13] (made in 1924)

Horizontal oban:
26.1 x 39.3 cm. (10 ¼ x 15 ½ in.)

£ 8,500.00

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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)

‘Kojaku Cave, Oga Peninsula’ (Oga hanto Kojaku no iwaya), from the series ‘Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series’ (Tabi miyage dai sanshu), 1926

Woodblock print
Signed: 'Hasui'
Artist's seal: 'Kawase'
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo, first edition seal (Hotei 'B', consistent with printing 1924-30, the earliest seal used for this design) in lower right margin
Dated: 'Taisho jugonen saku' [Taisho 15] (made, 1926)

Vertical oban:
38.7 x 26.3 cm. (15 ¼ x 10 ⅜ in.)

£ 5,200.00

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Torii Kotondo (1900-1976)

'Snow' (Yuki), 1929

Woodblock print
Signed: 'Kotondo ga'
Artist's red seal: 'Kotondo'
Dated: 1929, 10th month ('Showa yonen jugatsu')
Publisher: Sakai and Kawaguchi (embossed seal at lower left margin 'Sakai Kawaguchi go ban' [Sakai Kawaguchi joint publication])
Embossed title 'Yuki' in bottom margin
Reverse with embossed limited-edition seal numbered 54/300

Vertical dai-oban:
46.7 x 30 cm. (18 ⅜ x 11 ¾ in.)

£ 3,800.00

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Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956)

Outside the Te Sheng-Men, Peking, 1921

Woodblock print
Signed in red pencil: 'Elizabeth Keith'
Artist's circular red seal 'E.K.'
Dated: 1921
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo
Titled as above in red in the block at lower left

Vertical oban:
40.1 x 28.2 cm. (15 ¾ x 11 ⅛ in.)

£ 3,500.00

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)

Poem by Kiyowara no Fukayabu, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), circa 1835–36

Woodblock print
Signed: 'Saki no Hokusai Manji'
Publisher: Isaya Sanjiro (Eijudo)
Censor's seal: 'kiwame' (approved)
(Publisher and censor seal present at lower right, partially obscured by black bokashi)

Horizontal oban:
25.3 x 36.3 cm. (10 x 14 ¼ in.)

£ 9,800.00

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Numata Gessai (Utamasa) (1787-1864)

Young woman on a veranda (engawa) washing her hair in a basin, circa 1820s

Woodblock print, surimono, embellished with blind printing and metallic pigments
Signed: 'Utamasa ga' (lower right, signature rubbed)
Privately issued, circa 1820s

12.8 x 16 cm. (5 x 6 ¼ in.)

£ 220.00

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Numata Gessai (Utamasa) (1787-1864)

Young boy on a veranda with pestle and mortar, sitting opposite a woman whose silhouette can be seen through the shoji, circa 1820s

Woodblock print, surimono, embellished with blind printing and burnishing to the frame of the shoji
Signed: 'Utamasa ga'
Privately issued, circa 1820s

11.7 x 16.7 cm. (4 ⅝ x 6 ⅝ in.)

£ 450.00

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