Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

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Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806) | Seven, Five and Three: The Sacred Rice Cakes of Love (Shichi-go-san, koi no shimemochi) | Edo period, late 18th century

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Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)

Seven-Five-Three: The Sacred Rice Cakes of Love (Shichi-Go-San, koi no shimemochi)

Edo period, late 18^th century

woodblock print, yellow ground, from the series The Nikawa Festival in the Licensed Quarter (Seiro nikawa), signed Utamaro hitsu (Brush of Utamaro), censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Tsutaya Juzaburo (Koshodo), circa 1794-5; with collector's seal of Hayashi Tadamasa to the front, the seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso

Vertical chuban: 24.3 x 18 cm., 9½ x 7⅛ in.

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Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806), Sept, Cinq et Trois : les gâteaux de riz de l'amour, époque Edo, fin XVIIIe siècle

Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906)

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. 43.

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 41, no. 1-51.

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