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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865)
Prince Genji (Mitsuuji) and his numerous female attendants watching a cock fight.
Title: Toriawase no zu (Illustration of a Cock Fight)
Signature: Baichôrô Kunisada ga in Toshidama-Cartouche
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô)
Date: 11/1857
Size: Oban Triptych, 35 x 24 cm
Very fine impression of the print with brilliant colors, relief printing and metal pigments. Slightly trimmed margins , single sheets are not put together and are originally mounted. Very good condition.
Rare image of a cock fight.
Image in: Marks, Genji’s World in Japanese Woodblock Prints, Leiden 2012, S. 209, Abb. 211, Nr. G224.
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