Actors, samourai and courtesans
KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando
FICHE 20174
(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)
Okabe: The Narrow Ivy-covered Road at Mount Utsu (Utsu no yama tsuta no hosomichi)
The warrior Okabe Rokuyata
Woodblock print
1854
Fine impression on Japan paper, signed Hiroshige ga and Toyokuni ga, plate 22 from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi), published by Maruya Kyûshirô. Censors' seals aratame, tiger 12.
Sheet: ôban (352 x 242 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.
Condition: soilings, slightly trimmed in the lower part of the sheet.
450 €
