Landscapes
KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando
FICHE 19226
(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)
Sakanoshita: The Brush-discarding Mountain and the Eighty Rapids (Fudesute-yama, Yaso segawa)
Actor Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Akogi no Heiji versus Hirogawara Jirozô
Woodblock print
1857
Fine impression on japan paper, signed Hiroshige hitsu and Toyokuni ga, plate 49 from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi), published by Maruya Kyûshirô. Censors' seals aratame, Snake 4.
Sheet: ôban (358 x 245 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.
Condition: laid on Japan paper, very light soilings.
450 €
