Kunisada: Kyoto
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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865)

A noble court lady or poetess of the Heian era with her fan, in front of a bird's eye view of the imperial palace in Kyoto

Titel: Kyôto no zu (A view of Kyoto)

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

Signature: Kôchôrô Kunisada ga

Publisher: Sanoya Kihei, Edo

Censor: Kiwame

Date: c. 1833 ff

Size: Vertical Chûban, 25,5 x 18,5 cm

Excellent impression and colours. Unbacked and untrimmed. A little bit soiling and rubbing in parts, a professionally restored wormhole at lower right, overall very nice condition. Collector's 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, T24-55 B

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