UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1798-1861)

Description:

Japan, late Edo period
36 - 38 cm x 23 - 25 cm
Three ôban tate-e, coloured woodblock prints. 1) Series: ''Tokaido gojusan-tsui (The Fifty-three Parallels for the Tokaido Road). Title: ''Kambara no eki''. Censor seal: Aratame. Date: ca. 1845. 2) Series: ''Ogura Nazorae Hyakunin Isshu" (A Comparison of the Ogura One Hundred Poets). Sheet: No. 8, Poem by Kisen Hôshi: Nyûdô Yorimasa. Publisher: Ibaya Sensaburo. Date: c. 1845/47. 3 ) Series '' Ogura Nazorae Hyakunin Isshu'. Sheet. 68, okaibo, on a flight of temple steps lit by moonlight, holds a half opened scroll of a carp in a waterfall. Signed: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga. Publisher: Ibaya Sensaburo. Date: ca. 1845.
Minor wear, slightly stained, partly backed and slightly trimmed, mounted in passepartout