Gekkô: The plum garden
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Ogata Gekkô (1859-1920)
Man and woman under the flowering plum trees of Koishikawa Kôrakuen garden, Toyko
Title: Koishikawa baien (The plum garden in Koishikawa)
Series: Fujin fûzoku zukushi (Women‘s customs and manners)
Signature: Gekkô
Seal: unread
Block cutter: Negishi Chokuzan
Publisher: Sasaki Toyokichi, Tokyo
Date: Meiji 24 (1891)
Size: Vertical Oban, 32,9 x 22 cm (image size)
Very nice impression and colours, with gauffrage. Wide margins, unbacked. Paper a little age-toned. Some weak unobtrusive light stains in lower part. A minor crease lower left corner. Overall very good condition.
MFA Boston, No. 2016.1199 (giving the name in the local reading Kinegawa)
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