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KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando

FICHE 19209

(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)

Kusatsu: Seta Bridge on Lake Biwa (Biwa-ko Seta no hashi)

Actors Ichikawa Yaozô III as Sasaki Takatsuna and Ichikawa Danjûrô VI as Tanimura Kotôji

Woodblock print

1855

Fine impression on Japan paper, signed Hiroshige hitsu and Toyokuni ga, plate 53 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 8.

Sheet: ôban (358 x 245 mm)

Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.

Condition: laid on Japan paper, slight soilings, lower left corner restored.

450 €