Kunisada: Genji- Kiritsubo
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Kunisada: Genji- Kiritsubo
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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865)
The favourite of the Shogun, Lady Hanagiri, watches as her servant Sugibae, a lantern in her raised hand, hurries off to fetch her a new kimono.
Title: Kiritsubo – dai ichi no maki (The Paulownia Pavilion – Chapter No. 1)
Series: Genji goshû yojô (Lasting Impressions of a Late Genji Collection)
Signature: Toyokuni ga
Block cutter: Yokogawa Takejirô
Publisher: Sakanaya Eikichi (Uo-ei), Edo
Date: 2/1858
Size: Oban diptych, 35,8 x 49,5 cm
Very good impression and colours, with embossing, two separate unbacked sheets, at the innermargins some small, professionally restored pinholes, overall in excellent condition.
Ill. in: Andreas Marks, Genji‘s World in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Leiden 2012, p. 137, No. 105, including a detailed description and images of all diptychs of this luxurious Genji series.
€ 700,-