Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865) - after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
A travelling lady holding to her walking stick. Behind her travellers resting at a small rural wayside teastall near Fukuroi.
Title: Fukuroi no zu (A view of Fukuroi) (28th station)
Series: Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi (The Fifty-three Stations along the Tokaido)
Signature: Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (here without seal)
Date: c. 1833 ff
Size: Vertical Chûban, 25 x 18 cm
Very good impression, colours and condition; retains old album backing.
For the landscape backgrounds of this beautiful bijin series Kunisada mostly adapted scenes from Hiroshige's horizontal "Hôeidô-Tôkaidô“ (not yet completed at the time). Further information on the series in: Andreas Marks, Kunisada’s Tôkaidô. Riddles in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Leiden, 2013, p. 62 ff.
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