Condition:
Pretty good condition. Color is still clear and vivid. It doesn`t show holes nor fixing. Any remarkable stain nor crease. A light bright halo can be noticed over the red banner on the upper part, ut only when directly hit by the light.
Picture of a sumō match.
(Ō sumō torikumi no zu, 大相撲取組之図).
A representation of a sumō match from the Meiji era.
In this version of the print the two main wrestlers can be identified as Umegatani on the left and Ōdate on the right, while the referee (tategyōshi) standing just behind the latter as Shikimori Inosuke.
The two wrestlers belong to two different sumō group, which names can be respectively read on the first two red colums holding the marquee. On the left one we have Takasago, on the right we have Seki no to which no longer exist.
Condition:
Pretty good condition. Color is still clear and vivid. It doesn`t show holes nor fixing. Any remarkable stain nor crease. A light bright halo can be noticed over the red banner on the upper part, ut only when directly hit by the light.
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| Series | Eight views of modern Tōkyō (Ima yō Tōkyō hakkei, 今様東京八景). |
| Author | Utagawa Kuniaki II (二代目歌川国明) here signed as Hachisuka Kuniaki (蜂須賀 国明). |
| Size | Ōban (大判) 36,4cm x 24cm (14,33 x 9,44 inches). |
| Publisher | Yamamoto Yoichi (山本与市). |
| Number | / |
| Genre | Bijin-ga (美人画), kaika-e (開化絵), meisho-e (名所絵). |
| Period | C. 1885 |
| Trimmed | No |
| Backed | No |
| Code | KNA01001 |