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Artist:

Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850)

Subject:   A young woman cutting her nails on nanakusa day (seven herbs day, the seventh day of the first month).
Series: Hanazono bantsuzuki (A series for the Hanazonoren). The series is composed of at least 17 surimono depicting women in the early ukiyo-e style, published privately for the poets group Hanazono-ren.
Signature: Hokkei
Date: ca.1820
Size: Surimono, Shikishiban, 20,7x18,3 cm.
Remarks: Another impression is illustrated in: Charlotte van Rapard-Boon, Catalogue of the Collection of Japanese Prints Part IV Hiroshige and the Utagawa school, Japanese Prints c. 1810-1860,  Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, 1984, no.168.
Conditions: Very good impression with metallic pigments, very good colour and conditions
Item no. D 33
Price: Euro 1300
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