Actors, samourai and courtesans
KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando
FICHE 16240
(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)
Shirasuka: Panoramic View of Shiomizaka (Shiomizaka chôbô)
Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Jiraiya
Woodblock print
1855
Fine impression on japan paper, signed Hiroshige ga and Toyokuni ga, plate 33 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 (355 x 237 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.
Condition: laid on laid paper, margins cut off.
450 €
