Beschreibung:

EIZAN: oban tate-e (39.1 x 26.2cm. ea. approx.); a single sheet of a woman weaving while a child tries to get her attention below a scroll-shaped cartouche of women separating silk cocoons, titled Kaiko yashinai gusa go (Silkworm culture number 5), subtitled Mayu (cocoon), signed Kikugawa Eizan hitsu and published by Ezakiya Kichibei; a triptych titled Furyu hatadono zu (Picture of a fashionable weaving room), illustrated by beauties operating a large loom, signed Kikugawa Eizan hitsu and Eizan hitsu and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi; and a single sheet of a woman in a purple kimono standing before a stand of bush clover, from the series Furyu tsuki no meikyo (Fashionable mirror of the moon), signed Kikugawa Eizan hitsu and published by Kawaguchiya Uhei--very good impressions and color, slightly soiled and creased along edges, minute worm holes and binding holes, some with larger worm holes restored (5)