£600 - £800
An album of Japanese coloured woodblock prints, various dates, comprising; Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, circa 1756-1804), a tea-stall waitress holding a fan, from the series 'Eight Views of Tea-stalls in Celebrated Places' (Meisho koshikake hakkei), the sheet 38 x 26cm; another Kitagawa Utamaro woodblock print, Pleasure Parties in Boats on the Sumida River under the Ryogoku Bridge, with inscription for publisher Yamamoto Omiya, the sheet 28 x 20cm; together with a set of twelve further woodblock prints after Kitagawa Utamaro, 'Women weaving Silk Cloth'; and three further prints; a woman after the bath, Torii Kiyonaga, three beauties after Kikugawa Eizan, and another print of a group in an interior, sharing a meal of fish; some of the album pages with copyright labels for 'The West of Japan International Tourism & Products Company'
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