Three hagoita [battledore] | Showa period, 20th century

Three hagoita [battledore]

 Showa period, 20^th century 

each of standard frame, decorated in lacquer, silk and silk-covered card, variously with a woman reading in a scroll in the manner of Utamaro, an actor from the kabuki stage and the Wisteria Maiden (Fuji-musume)

62 cm., 24 in. long (the first) 

74 cm., 29 in. long (the second) 

46 cm., 18 in. long (the third) 

31in