Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865) / after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
A lady crouching in front of a basin of water. In the background a teahouse by the roadside in first spring.
Title: Mariko no zu (A view of Mariko)
Series: Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi (The Fifty-three Stations along the Tokaido)
Signature: Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei, Edo
Censor: Kiwame
Date: c. 1833 ff
Size: Vertical Chûban, 25,9 x 18,6 cm
Excellent ipression and colours. Unbacked and untrimmed. Minor soiling and minimally rubbed on bottom. Overall very nice condition. Collector's seal Otto Hundt on verso.
Excellent impression and colours. Unbacked and untrimmed. A little bit soiling and rubbing in parts, a professionally restored wormhole at lower right, overall very nice condition. Collector's For the landscape backgrounds of this beautiful bijin series Kunisada mostly and freely adapted scenes from Hiroshige's horizontal "Hôeidô-Tôkaidô“ (not yet completed at the time). Further information on the series in: Andreas Marks, Kunisada’s Tôkaidô. Riddles in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Leiden, 2013, p. 62 ff, T24-21.
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