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YOSHITORA Utagawa

FICHE 13752

(active c. 1836 - 1887)

Yui in Suruga Province: Illustration of the Old Poem about Tago Bay (Tago no ura ko uta no zu)

Woodcut in colours

1872

Impression on Japan paper signed,  from the series Calligraphy and Pictures for the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Shoga gojûsan eki), published by Sawamuraya Seikichi. Censor seals Water Monkey (Jinshin, mizunoe saru) 10.

Sheet: vertical ôban (360 x 240 mm.)

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

Condition: some tiny whormholes, margins yellowed in some places.   

280 €