82 5480 Toshihide 1863 1928 
82 5481 Toshihide 1863 1928 
- Foxed in upper half of left margin of left hand sheet. Otherwise fine.
= State before the block of the left sheet was recycled to be used in the Russo-Japanese war (where it shows Russian soldiers fleeing in panic from the advancing Japanese troops).
82 5482 Toshimitsu Kobayashi act 1877 1904 
= The Battle of Pyongyang was the second major land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War. It took place on 15 September 1894 in Pyongyang, Korea between the forces of Meiji Japan and Qing China.
82 5483 Toyokuni I 1769 1825 
- Sl. foxed in lower margin; tipped onto mount along upper and lower margin. Otherwise fine.
AND 1 other by KUNICHIKA (A masked actor holding a dagger in his hand) (part of an ōban triptych. Cut short).
82 5484 Toyokuni I 1769 1825 
- Doubled w. thin Japanese w. bits of vegetal matter embedded, closing a few sm. wormholes at the bottom of the print.
= Part of a diptych or triptych.
82 5485 Utamaro 1754 1806 
82 5486 Utamaro 1754 1806 
- Vertical central fold, resulting in some sm. dam. spots; one sm. wormhole in lower margin; col. faded; sl. soiled/ rubbed.
82 5487 Utamaro 1754 1806 
= Later restrike.
82 5488 Utamaro II 1789 1831 
- Sl. dampstained in left margin; sl. faded.
AND 1 other: KIYONAGA (1752-1815) (Four Beauties around a stone gate) (part of a col. woodcut ôban, left half of a diptych or triptych. Early 20th cent. ed.; cut short).
- Sl. dampstained in left margin; sl. faded.
82 5489 Various household utensils and furniture 
82 5489 Various household utensils and furniture 
82 5489 Various household utensils and furniture 
- Rebacked w. thin Japanese paper; lower margin professionally restored, lower borderline redrawn.
AND 7 other omacha-e (prints for children), all collections of multiple figures (monozukushi), i.a. warriors, costumes, animals, all rebacked/ strengthened w. thin Japanese paper.
82 5490 Yamakawa Shûhô 1898 1944 
- With a closed tear in centre of upper margin (and 5 mm. in the portrayed's hair) and three tiny tears in blank margins; w. some very light creases in the woman's face. A good impression.
= One of four prints from the series Fujô yondai (Women in Four Settings). On Shûhô: The New Wave, p. 179: "Born in Kyoto, Yamakawa Yoshio studied the techniques of Nihonga with Ikegami Shûhô (1874-1944) (from whom he received his name) and subsequently with Kaburagi Kiyokata. Together with Itô Shinsui, Kobayakawa Kiyoshi and Torii Kotondo, he is counted among Kiyokata's outstanding students in the bijinga genre, [...]." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
82 5491 Yamamura Kôka Toyonari 1885 1942 
- Dampstained, largely affecting face of the maiko.
= Yamamura Kôka, also known as Toyonari, studied under Ogata Gekkô and graduated from the Tokyo Art School in 1907. He is celebrated for his actor portraits. He was an adherent of the shin hanga movement and he was strongly opposed to the emerging sôsaku hanga movement, where artists committed themselves to being involved in all processes of print production, including the carving and printing, rather than just the design process. The New Wave, p.16-17, 153.
82 5492 Yosa Buson 1716 1783 
82 5492 Yosa Buson 1716 1783 
82 5492 Yosa Buson 1716 1783 
- Trifle browned, otherwise fine.
= A volume of charicatures of old haikai poets, each in a fan shape and accompanied by a calligraphed poem.
82 5493 Yoshida Hiroshi 1876 1950 
- Sl. yellowed.
82 5494 Yoshida Hodaka 1926 1995 
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
82 5495 Yoshida Toshi 1911 1995 
82 5496 Yoshifuji 1828 1887 
82 5496 Yoshifuji 1828 1887 
82 5496 Yoshifuji 1828 1887 
- Slightly worn in lower left corner; trifle soiled.
AND 2 other col. woodcuts ôban, i.a.: Hiroshige (1797-1858). Matsuchiyama Saruwaka-machi Kinryûzan (Saruwaka-machi District and Kinryûzan Temple seen from Matsuchiyama). Signed Hiroshige-ga, w. censor seals and date seal, 1853 (from Edo meisho (Famous Places in Edo); margins cut off).
82 5497 Yoshiiku 1833 1904 
= One of a series of supplement plates to the periodical Tozai Shimbun, showing of ghosts and monsters.
82 5498 Yoshikazu act 1850 1870 
- Binding holes near left or right edge. = Rare.
82 5499 Yoshitaki 1841 1899 
- Rebacked w. Japanese (w. annots. in brush and ink on it); occas. sl. creased and lacking flecks of colour, particularly along right margin; sm. remants of glue in lower corners. Nevertheless an attractive print.
= Upper panel of an asymmetrical triptych, showing actors Nakamura Jakuemon I as Dokuro and Arashi Rikan III as Nozarashi Gosuke, in Act 3 of the play Keisei Kuruwa no Kadomatsu (The New Year Pine Tree of the Pleasure Quarters).