Actors, samourai and courtesans
KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando
FICHE 20216
(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)
Ôtsu: Mount Ôsaka and the Spring at the Barrier Gate (Ôsaka-yama, seki no kiyomizu)
Actor Sawamura Sôjûrô III as Ôtomo no Kuronushi, author of the poem Kagamiyama
Woodblock print
1855
Fine impression on Japan paper, signed Hiroshige hitsu and Toyokuni ga, plate 54 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 8.
Sheet: ôban (353 x 240 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA de Boston.
Condition: stains, lower right corner restored.
350 €
