Actors, samourai and courtesans
KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando
FICHE 15758
(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)
Okazaki: Yahagi River and Yahagi Bridge (Yahagigawa, Yahagi no hashi)
Jōruri-hime and Ushiwakamaru (Yoshitsune)
Woodblock print
1855
Fine impression on japan paper, signed Hiroshige hitsu and Toyokuni ga, plate 39 from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi), published by Maruya Kyûshirô. Censors' seals Aratame, Hare 4.
Sheet: vertical ôban (360 x 250 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Condition: laid on Japan paper, foxings in the lower part.
380 €
