£450
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 682
Auction: 13 May 2022 at 11:00 BST
comprising: two oban tate-e Kabuki memorial portraits attributed to Toyokawa Yoshikuni (active 1804-1843), one depicting the actor Arashi Kitsusaburo I seated on a bench smoking a pipe, published by Toshikuraya Shinbei, circa 1821, the other the same actor with a cartouche records his posthumous Buddhist name, circa 1821; and two Edo period surimono, one depicting a shunga pine mushroom and red clamshell, the other of Tosa style, depicting two aristocratic lovers exchanging love poems to each other on either side of a sliding door