Kunisada: Genji-Hana no en Kunisada: Genji-Hana no en


Kunisada: Genji-Hana no en
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Kunisada: Genji-Hana no en
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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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