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TOYOKUNI. Yakusha-e. Kabuki Theater scene. Samurai holding a criying baby. Colored woodcut. 336x238 ca. Sign: "Gototei Kunisada ga." Publisher: Izutsuya Shokichi. Very good impression, cut, glued, lightly soiled. An actor in a samurai role stands on stage under a curtain, holding a crying baby under his arm. Yakusha-e, often referred to as "actor prints" in English, are Japanese woodblock prints of kabuk actors, particularly those done in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603-1867).Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, Edo, 1786-1865, was one of the most famous Ukiyo-e woodblock print designers of 19th century Japan. He was the head of one of the most important Japanese woodblock printing schools, the Utagawa School.From around 1850 on allmost prints have the signature enclosed in a Toshidama cartouche. Just to 1860 the very most prints were only signed with "Toyokuni ga" in these cartouches, mostly red but also yellow, blue or green colored.
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TOYOKUNI. Yakusha-e. Kabuki Theater scene. Samurai holding a criying baby. Colored woodcut. 336x238 ca. Sign: "Gototei Kunisada ga." Publisher: Izutsuya Shokichi. Very good impression, cut, glued, lightly soiled. An actor in a samurai role stands on stage under a curtain, holding a crying baby under his arm. Yakusha-e, often referred to as "actor prints" in English, are Japanese woodblock prints of kabuk actors, particularly those done in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603-1867).Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, Edo, 1786-1865, was one of the most famous Ukiyo-e woodblock print designers of 19th century Japan. He was the head of one of the most important Japanese woodblock printing schools, the Utagawa School.From around 1850 on allmost prints have the signature enclosed in a Toshidama cartouche. Just to 1860 the very most prints were only signed with "Toyokuni ga" in these cartouches, mostly red but also yellow, blue or green colored.
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