Lot including: - Lot 374

Lot including: - Torii KIYONAGA (1752-1815) and Utagawa TOYOKUNI (1769-1825), Japan. Set of three ôban tate-e prints, one depicting actors Nakamura Rikô I as Tanba-ya Otsuma and Ichikawa Yaosô III as Furute-ya Hachirôbei, with two musicians behind them, signed Kiyonaga ga, 1785, and two signed Toyokuni ga, one with two actors (a standing onnagata and a seated man holding an abacus) and the other a single actor standing in a striped kimono. Dimensions: 37.4x25 cm; 38.7x25.8 cm; 36.7x26.7 cm. (Margins cut, two pasted on cardboard, one at all four corners, some sunned, stained, with wormholes, foxing). - After Kitagawa UTAMARO (1753-1806). Embossed, micaceous ôban tate-e print of a woman smoking a pipe (from the Fujô ninsô juppon series), signed Sokan Utamaro ga, Meiji edition. (Margin cut, glued on cardboard, wear, worm holes). Expert: L.M.