A perspective print ( uki-e ) of a diving woman retrieving the jewel from the ( undersea ) dragon palace.
Artist: Okumura Masanobu ( 1686 - 1764 )
Signed: Hogetsudo Okumura Bunkaku Masanobu Shohitsu
Date: ca. 1740
Format: o-oban ( large oban ); Woodblock print with hand-applied color and nikawa.
Dimensions: 12 3/4'' x 17 3/4''
 
Condition: Full margins, slight creasing from folds, small piece missing from the bottom left margin, minor repairs. 
 
Comment: We have found only two other impressions of this design and they are both trimmed inside the black line losing all of the information. One in the MFA Boston, # 11.13346  and the other in the Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, # 4693.  
Illustrated in Ukiyo-e by Calza, Gian Carlo, # 11.10, pg. 124.
 
Price upon application.