Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865)
The young Kumoinojô (Yûgiri) and the young lady Karigane are secretly attracted to each other. Both of them on separate sides of a byobu, shyly waiting what the other one will do. The painting on the byobu, a pair of mandarin ducks, symbolizing their affection for each other.
Titel: Otome – Dai sanjûich maki (The Maidens – Chapter No. 31)
Series: Genji goshû yojô (Lasting Impressions of a Late Genji Collection)
Signature: Toyokuni ga
Block cutter: Yokogawa Takejirô
Publisher: Sakanaya Eikichi (Uo-ei)
Date: 12/1857
Size: Oban-Diptych, 36,3 x 49,2 cm
Very good print and colours with embossing, two separate unbaked sheets, at the inner edges some small, professionally restored pin holes, altogether in perfect condition.
Image in Andreas Marks, Genji‘s World in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Leiden 2012, p. 147, No. 132. including a detailed description and images of all diptychs of this luxurious Genji series
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