April 23, 2024
Toyokuni III/Utagawa Kunisada (EDO 1852) Woodblock Print HIROSHIGE Samurai Ukiyo
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Utagawa Toyokuni III/Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) Actors at The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi): Takanawa, 1852. Oban. Station 46 from the seriesDate: 1852Actor: Bando Hikosaburo IVRole: Nakano TobeiPublisher: Sumiyoshiya MasagoroCensors seals: Hama, MagomeSigned: Toyokuni gaSize: vertical oban, aprox. 14 x 10 inches (35.6 × 25.4 cm)This is a very striking print. Color and impression are good. There is a hole on the left side of the top margin. Please look over all photos carefully.The figure pictured in this elegant print has a fine Hiroshige derived rain scene.The portraits in this series are all very distinctive — as is this one, one of the finest in the group. Kunisada was obliged to disguise the subject by introducing the landscape backgrounds, almost all of them borrowed from his colleague Hiroshige who, as a landscape artist, was immune to the privations of his fellow artists caused by the draconian new laws. The viewer would have been instantly familiar with the play, the character and the actor in each print.
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