Ex-Honolulu AA Study Col: Japanese Woodblock RARE Primitive Ukiyo-e Re-print Art

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Ex-Honolulu AA Study Col: Japanese Woodblock RARE Primitive Ukiyo-e Re-print Art:
$9.95

Happy Holidays!
Tons of low-priced buy-it-now Japanese print offerings now available! I hope you find a subject that will tickle your fancy, or that of someone you love. Japanese prints make great gifts!
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This week, I will have some special offerings... A few summers back, I had the chance to offer on some lots of woodblock prints de-accessioned from the study/reference collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. These included numerous early, pre-war, pre-Kanto Earthquake and even pre-Taisho (Meiji era) reprints. offerding was fierce on these, but I managed to win some. Some of these prints are from the James Michener collection, the heart of the H.A.A. ukiyo-e collection, while others were donated, according to notes on the mats, in the 1930s, and yet others have no notes on provenance. Many of these reprints are extremely rare, and I\'ve not seen any similar elsewhere, while others are of more popular subjects. I\'ll have two dozen offerings from this grouping this week, all starting at friendly, holiday-spirit, low prices. This lot is for a reprint of an early, 17th century primitive ukiyo-e, depicting a pair of lovers under an umbrella, watched admiringly by two sister courtesans on the upper floor of a green house. The figures are all identified by cartouche, the man \"Ukiyonosuke\"--the hero of Ihara Saikaku\'s Life of an Amorous Man. The artist of this wonderful composition is Hishikawa Morofusa (signed on the block, \"Morofusa\"written in pencil on rear). Prints of such early vintage are almost impossible to find in originals today, so a reprint like this is the closest we can get.
The print has an unusual, squiggly seal printed on the front, shared by a number of the early prints from the Honolulu reference collection. I believe this must be the seal of the print publisher, but I have not been able to locate it (it\'s not Adachi, Takamizawa or Watanabe, but must be a comparable sort of publisher).
The size is 11 x 7 1/2 inches. Early paper with chain lines. Good condition.Please check out many similar items in our buy-it-now sales!