Posted by Erik S. on January 08, 2002 at 16:47:28:
Hello:
I have recently looked for further information regarding one of three Japanese prints that my parents had acquired while living in Paris shortly after the war. I have found the artist/title (Sharaku - Iwai Hashiro IV as Shigenori) but notice than my print doesn't bear the bottom two marks which I believe are censor-approval and publisher's marks. Does anyone know any significance of missing these two marks?