Landscapes
KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando
FICHE 20182
(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)
Ôiso: The Marsh Where Snipe Rise Up and the Hermitage of Saigyô (Shigi tatsu sawa, Saigyô an)
Actor Sawamura Sôjûrô III as Soga no Jûrô Sukenari, with Tora of Ôiso
Woodblock print
1854
Fine impression on japan paper, signed Hiroshige hitsu and Toyokuni ga, plate 9 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 7.
Sheet: ôban (353 x 242 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.
Condition: soilings, slightly trimmed in the right margin.
400 €
