Lot 725: f - OKUMURA TOSHINOBU, (FL.1725-1744)

ICHIKAWA DANJURO II AS SOGA GORO

hosoban urushi-e, 32.2 by 14.5cm., 12 5/8 by 5 3/4 in.

depicted standing on a go board and sharpening an arrow in the play Suehiro ehou Soga performed in the first month of 1729 at the Nakamura-za, publisher's mark of Jihon Tori-shio-cho, Edo Shitoiya Okumura, signed Yamato gako Okumura Toshinobu hitsu

Condition Note: Fairly good impression with handcolouring, extensively soiled, rubbed and worn, trimmed all around

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