Actors, samourai and courtesans
KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando
FICHE 19223
(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)
Goyu: The Honno Plain with a Panoramic View of Mount Fuji (Honno-ga-hara, Fuji chôbô)
Actors Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Yamamoto (Yokozô) and Bandô Mitsugorô III as Naoe (Jihizô)
Woodblock print
1855
Fine impression on japan paper, signed Hiroshige hitsu and Toyokuni ga, plate 36 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: ôban (358 x 245 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.
Condition: laid on Japan paper.
450 €
