Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865)
A lady with some tissues in her mouth, her obi lying undone behind her, is trying to put a hairpin in her hairdo. Mitsuuji, sitting on the ground with a ogi in his hand, observing the scene.
Title: Hana no en – Dai jû no maki (Under The Cherry Blossoms – Chapter No. 10)
Series: Genji goshû yojô (Lasting Impressions of a Late Genji Collection)
Signature: Toyokuni ga
Block cutter: Yokogawa Takejirô
Publisher: Sakanaya Eikichi (Uo-ei), Edo
Date: 6/1858
Size: Oban diptych, 36,3 x 49,4 cm
Very good print and colours with embossing, two separate unbacked sheets, at the inner margins some small, professionally restored pinholes, altogether in excellent condition.
Ill. in Andreas Marks, Genji‘s World in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Leiden 2012, p. 139, No. 113., including a detailed description and images of all diptychs in this luxurious Genji series.
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