Live auction - Lot 761
[Genji-e]
Nisemurasaki genji sugata: mitate hakkei no uchi seiran [Genji and the False Murasaki: Eight Views in the Mountain Air].
Tsujioka-ya, censors seal: 1861 first month
Hammer price: €
70
€ 60 / 80
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Lot description
Triptych, 22,4 x 15, 3, on crepe paper (the middle and left part glued together, no margins, bright colours, underlaid).
A smaller later version of ôban. Chirimen-gami (crepe paper) was very popular from the 1880s to satisfy a bigger market.