Actor Ishikawa Yaoza sitting in the role of a samurai. In the background latticework of the Yoshiwara. Stamp of the collector Hayashi. Signed. Hosoye (narrow picture, upright format)
Provenance
[...] - at least at the end of 1929 Ostasiatica collection Herbert Ginsberg, Berlin; after 1945 no longer in the possession of Herbert Ginsberg; circumstances of loss unknown - a loss as a result of Nazi persecution cannot be ruled out. Whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Undatierter Katalog (um Nov. 1929), in: DigiBaeck, Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI NY), Gilbert Family Collection, AR 1028/MF 818, Box 7, folder 4, S. 690-921; Abschnitt: Japanische Holzschnitte, Nr. 71.
