Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865)
Standing graceful lady with a large round lantern which shows a picture of the Heian period with a musician playing his koto while a lady is listening.
Title: Gon Chûnagon Teika (Provisional Middle Councillor Teika) – No 97
Series: without title, but belongs to „Hyakunin isshu eshô“ – (A pictorial commentary on one hundred poems by one hundred poets)
Signature: Kokuteisha (or Kunisadasha) Toyokuni ga
Siegel: Toshidama
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei
Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Hama
Date: 1847-48
Size: Oban, 36,5 x 25 cm
Very good impression and colours, with relief printing and glossy overprint. Left margin a little bit trimmed, at upper margin and lower right corner somewhat worn, at the back side's lower margin paper partly a little bit thinner, tiny pinhole at upper right corner, a few creases, three very small wormholes, otherwise very good and clean condition.
About the series compare Izzard, Kunisada’s World, S. 158, # 77, Kunisada-Project (www.kunisada.de), No 16.
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