Lot 400 Dα

This print has not been published before. It was introduced to Allen Hockley (author of The Prints of Isoda Koryusai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-century Japan), who noted several interesting points:
The signature ‘Yamato gakô Koryûsai ga’ is not very common. Koryûsai used it on four other prints from the Hinagata series, notably the last four designs he made. The use of this signature and similarities in style between this print and his last designs suggest that this print must be the last, or among the last ones, that Koryûsai made for the Hinagata series. In 1782 Kiyonaga took over and continued as the designer of this very popular series.