Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865)
Two beauties beside a summer screen with a rimpa decor, autumn leaves over waters.
Title: Sangi Masatsune (The poet and state council Masatsune) – No 94 (right), and: Saki no Daisôjô (Jichin) (the emeritus abbot Jichin or Jien) ) – No 95 (left)
Series: without title, but belonging to „Hyakunin isshu eshô“ (A pictorial commentary on one hundred poems by one hundred poets)
Signature: Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga (right), Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga (left)
Seal: Toshidama
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei, Edo
Censor seals: Hama and Kinugasa
Date: 1847-48
Size: Oban diptych, set ca. 36,5 x 49,8 cm
Very good impression and colours. Not mounted, not put together. Paper partly a little bit thinner at corners and margins. Left print with a weak vertical centre fold. Throughout still in a very good condition.
Two of just a few items of this series which can be matched unambiguously, therefore offered here as a set. About the series compare Izzard, Kunisada’s World, p 158, # 77, Kunisada-Project (www.kunisada.de), No 16.
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