Item from the Mokuhankan Flea Market

Geisha with Shamisen

Size: 40.0cm by 26.5cm (15.75 in by 10.43 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Keisai Eisen

Era: Post-war | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 7,000$ 55.00£ 43.25€ 50.75 [Item has been sold]

Description: This is an Eisen design from his series Ukiyo fûzoku bijo kurabe (Customs of the Floating World: A Contest of Beautiful Women).

We are of course in the Yoshiwara, with an entertainer preparing her shamisen for performance.

The print has a particularly beautiful blend of colour tones. When one of our printers here saw this one, she said simply 「日本の色ですね...」 "Very Japanese in its colouring ..."

A reproduction published by Ishu Kanko-kai and produced by Kajikawa Kobo probably in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

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