UTAGAWA KUNISADA (TOYOKUNI III) (1786-1864)

Description:

Japan, late Edo period
22 - 25 x 17 - 35 cm
1) Double page, colour woodblock print. Title: ''Cho chidori'' (butterflies and plovers). Shunga motif. Date. ca. 1840/45. 2) Chûban tate-e, colour woodblock print. Illustration of the Genji Monogatari. Signature: Toyokuni ga. Publisher: Sanoki. Date: ca. 1852. 3 ) Ôban - yoko-e. Title: ''Sono sugata no utsushi-e. Signature: Ichiyusai Toyokuni ga. Publisher: Senichi. Censorship: Kingusa & Murata 1851. 4) Ôban yoko-e. Colour woodblock print. Actors on a stage. Signature: Ichiyusai Toyokuni ga. Censorship: Fuku and Muramatsu. Date: ca. 1849/53. 5) Ôban yoko-e, colour woodblock print. Scene from the Genji Monogatari. Signature: Ichiyusai Toyokuni ga. Publisher: Senichi. Censor: Kinugasa Watanabe. Date: ca. 1849-50.
Minor wear, partly slightly stained, one ôban with central fold, mounted in passepartout