
Lot Closed
March 23, 03:23 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Torii Kotondo (1900-1976)
Long Undergarment (Nagajuban)
Showa period, 20th century
woodblock print, signed Kotondo ga (Pictured by Kotondo), and with artist's seal Torii, titled as above embossed to the bottom margin, embossed publisher's mark to lower left corner Sakai Kawaguchi go ban [joint venture, Sakai and Kawaguchi], dated Showa yonen shichigatsu (July 1929), with embossed limited edition mark hand-numbered to verso San-hyaku mai kagiri zeppan, dai sanjuhachi (limited edition of 300, number 38)
Vertical dai oban: 43.8 x 28.9 cm., 17¼ x 11⅜ in.
For a similar impression of the same print in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1981,0731,0.2, go to:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1981-0731-0-2