Now, something of a surprise is that given the Super Strat design, we expected a hard rocking machine here, however, while it can certainly rock out with the best of them, this uber rare guitar – fitted with a humbucker and two single coil pickups – is incredibly adept at… jazz. (The original Sharaku print is shown in pic # 8) Sharaku’s floating world depictions of kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers were meticulously created woodblock prints, featuring dark grey backgrounds of powdered mica, which has been beautifully recreated here, (pic # 4), offsetting the colors of his kabuki character perfectly. The guitar has come to us direct from a private Sydney collection and is in Near Mint condition. We initially saw no serial number on the guitar, until we were photographing it, at which point we noticed the 036 stamped into the top of the headstock, (see pic # 7). Limited edition Japanese production runs are typically one hundred or three hundred instruments. This stunning guitar ostensibly comes from a late eighties/early nineties, limited edition tribute series by Fernandes, produced for domestic Japanese sale only. ![]() Between May of 1794 and January 1795, a hitherto unknown Japanese artist, signing himself Tôshûsai Sharaku, laboriously created a total of 145 prints in the Ukiyo-e style, (“images of the floating world”), which have subsequently achieved such worldwide acclaim that Sharaku is often called the Rembrandt of Ukiyo-e.
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