SHIGEHARU. Yakusha-e.
Colored woodcut. 245x175 mm. Sign: Kunishige. Very good im…

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SHIGEHARU. Yakusha-e. Colored woodcut. 245x175 mm. Sign: Kunishige. Very good impression with blind printing and kinginzuri (meander motif in the lined jacket), few foxing spots. Portrait of an actor in the comedy Shitennoji garan kagami at the Naka Theater (Osaka). From the series Biographies of Brave Men at the Height of Their Careers (Eika jinyuden). Another portrait from the series with identical signature at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Accession Number: 1983.1.42.1. Utagawa Kunishige is a late name adopted by the artist Yamaguchi Shigeharu, actif in Osaka.Kinginzuri is a fine method of printing gold or silver (and other metallic pigments) on a woodblock print ukiyo-e.

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SHIGEHARU. Yakusha-e. Colored woodcut. 245x175 mm. Sign: Kunishige. Very good impression with blind printing and kinginzuri (meander motif in the lined jacket), few foxing spots. Portrait of an actor in the comedy Shitennoji garan kagami at the Naka Theater (Osaka). From the series Biographies of Brave Men at the Height of Their Careers (Eika jinyuden). Another portrait from the series with identical signature at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Accession Number: 1983.1.42.1. Utagawa Kunishige is a late name adopted by the artist Yamaguchi Shigeharu, actif in Osaka.Kinginzuri is a fine method of printing gold or silver (and other metallic pigments) on a woodblock print ukiyo-e.

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