Keishû: Red peach blossom
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Takeuchi Keishû (1861-1942)

An elegant young lady of the Meiji period, wearing a blue haori over her brown kasuri kimono and a warming fur stole wrapped around her neck, holding a bunch of peach blossom branches in her gloved hand.

Untitled (Himomo - red peach blossoms)

Seal: Keishû. Seal: Toshikata

Kuchi-e (frontispiece print), from "Bungei Kurabu", Vol. XI,4

Publisher: Hakubunkan, Tokyo

Date: 1908

Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Vertical Aiban, 28,7 x 22,2 cm (overall)

Very good impression and colours. The two usual horizontal folds. One wormhole at lower margin and some scattered tiny wormholes. Overall very good condition.
Cf. Honolulu Museum of Art, Philip H. Roach Jr. Collection, No. 27516; Harvard Art Museums, 1978.270; Yokohama Museum of Art 91-PRJ-01E-34.

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