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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) Oban tate-e from...

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) Oban tate-e from the series Hyakunin Isshu, One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets, plate Ôe no Chisato, Two porters carrying an empty palanquin under the glow of the full moon. Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga, publisher Ehiko (margins trimmed). 37 x 25 cm Contemplating the moon of a thousand and one things I feel sadness it is not for me alone, however, that autumn has come. Provenance: Galerie Wansart, Brussels, February 5, 1949.