Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
Daimyô Ôuchi Yoshikata knocking off the court cap of Sue Harukata with his fan. The picture in the cartouche - girl with a shamisen - is signed by Yoshimasa, a pupil of Kuniyoshi.
Title: Suô – Ôuchi Yoshitaka
Series: Dai Nihon rokujûyoshû no uchi (The Sixty-odd Provinces of Great Japan)
Signature: Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
Seal: Kiri-Mon
Publisher: Kogaya Katsugorô
Censors: Watari
Date: ca. 1845
Size: Oban, 36,5 x 25,8 cm (paper size)
Very good impression and very nice colours, with some glossy overprint and printed with some mica (oxidized). In this print the trousers of the daimyô show a two-coloured bokashi! (mostly just single-coloured). Probably untrimmed, originally mounted. At right margin a few small pinholes. Nice condition. Rare print.
Robinson, The Warrior Prints, S36.50. British Museum No 2008,3037.14809. MFA Boston, Bigelow Coll. No 11.42460.
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