STREET MUSICIAN AND BLOSSOMING PLUM TREE (Utagawa Kunisada)

Object: original Japanese woodblock print (left part of a triptych)
Genre: ukiyo-e 浮世絵 pictures of the floating world

Artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (1786-1865), signed Toyokuni ga 豊国画
Print title: Tori Kagura Dance on the First Day of the Rooster in the Twelfth Month, Featuring the Takashimaya Actors 酉神楽獅子高嶌
Print subject: actor Sawamura Tanosuke III 三代目澤村田之助 as a torioi 鳥追い street musician and blossoming plum tree at night

Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke 海老屋林之助 (Kaijudo 海寿堂)
Carver: Matsushima Masakichi 松島政吉
Censor’s seal: Goat 12 aratame 未十二改

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Year: 1859, 12th month
Condition: reasonable, wrinkles, holes and restorations
Dimensions: 25 x 36,5 cm

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