Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

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Nishimura Shigenobu (active circa 1729-39) | The actor Ogino Isaburo in the role of an Itinerant Flower Vendor | Edo period, early 18th century

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Nishimura Shigenobu (active circa 1729-39)

The actor Ogino Isaburo in the role of an Itinerant Flower Vendor

Edo period, early 18^th century

woodblock print, urushi-e, with hand-applied colour, embellished with gold and metallic pigment, titled Shiki no hana-uri, sanbantsuki, chu (Peddler of Flowers of the Four Seasons; a set of three, the middle sheet), circa 1738; with collector’s seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso

Vertical hosoban: 28.9 x 15.1 cm., 11⅜ x 6 in.

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Nishimura Shigenobu (act. vers 1729-39), L'acteur Ogino Isaburo, époque Edo, début XVIIIe siècle

Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection], exhibited at the following venues:

Matsuzakaya Department Store, Osaka, 27^th December 1990 - 8^th January 1991

Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24^th - 29^thJanuary 1991

Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), no. 10.

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 22, no. 1-8.

Another impression of the same print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number JP2658.

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