Woodcut, dimensions: 24 cm x 36 cm
Signed: 香蝶楼豊国画 'Kōchōrō Toyokuni ga. The woodcut bears a kiwame (censorship) stamp, certifying the printing time.
The publisher is 蔦屋重三郎 Sutaya Jūzaburō.
Dimensions: 24 cm x 36 cm
Condition of preservation: very good
The colors are very well preserved, with almost no defects.
Traces of rubbing and hand pressure are clearly visible on the reverse, as befits an original woodcut.
Kunisada Utagawa (Japanese: 歌川国貞 Utagawa Kunisada; born 1786 in Edo, died January 13, 1865 there) was a Japanese painter working in the ukiyo-e style.
A pupil of Toyokuni Utagawa. He usually created a variety of female portraits (bijinga), sometimes of an erotic nature (shunga), as well as images of kabuki theater actors, characterized by expressive imagery. He also worked as a book illustrator, his most important achievement in this field being the illustrations for Tanehiko Ryūteia's satirical novel Nise murasaki inaka genji.
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