KOMAI YOSHINOBU (ACT. C.1764-81) EDO PERIOD, C.1765-71 A Japanese woodblock print entitled Edo-machi Itchome, Ogiya uchi Matsukaze (The Courtesan Matsukaze of Ogiya in Edo-machi Itchome), depicting two beauties in an interior, one presenting the other with a letter, signed Komai Yoshinobu ga , with the seal of the Hayashi Collection, 25.5cm x 19.4cm; the mount with a handwritten inscription reading 'Yoshinobu Komai, seal of the Hayashi Collection, bought from Murakami 10-3(?)-09' in French. Provenance: from the collection of Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949), and previously in the collection of Hayashi Tadamasa (1854-1906). See Sotheby's London, Important Japanese Prints, Books and Paintings from the Adolphe Stoclet Collection, 8th June 2004, lot 101, for another print by Komai Yoshinobu from the collection of Adolphe Stoclet, with a similar inscription on the mount reading 'bought from Murakami, 9-1-09'. Also, see the Art Institute Chicago, access. no.1928.979 for another example of this print.