Kunisada: Shinagawa
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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865) / after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

A beauty standing next to a bronze charcoal basin (hibachi). In the background the procession of a daimyô on the coastal road in Shinagawa; behind the wide bay of Edo.

Title: Shinagawa no zu (A view of Shinagawa)

Series: Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi (The Fifty-three Stations along the Tokaido)

Signature: Kôchôrô Kunisada ga

Publisher: Sanoya Kihei and Moriya Jihei, Edo

Censor: Kiwame

Date: c. 1833 ff

Size: Vertical Chûban, 25,5 x 18,5 cm

Very good impression and excellent colours. Unbacked and untrimmed. Very nice condition. Collector's seal Otto Hundt on verso.

For the landscape backgrounds of this beautiful bijin series Kunisada mostly and freely 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, T24-02

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