UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861): 13 PRINTS FROM THE SERIES ''SEICHU GISHI DEN'' AND ONE PRINT FROM THE SERIES ''TAIHEIKI EIYUDEN''

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Japan, late Edo period
ca. 25- 26 x 36-37,5 cm
13 Ôban tate-e, coloured woodblock prints. Series: ''Seichu gishi den'' (Stories of Faithful Samurai). 1) No. 1: Oboshi Yuranosuke Yoshio. 2) No. 9: Onodera Junai Hidetomo. 3) No. 14: Otaka Gengo Tadao. 4) No. 15: Kataoka Dengoemon Takafusa. 5) No. 24: Takebayashi Sadashichi Takashige. 6) No. 25: Kurahashi Zensuke Takeyuki,. 7) No. 26: Aihara Esuke Munefusa. 8) No. 30: Onodera Toemon Hidetome. 9) No. 34: Oribe Taketsune. 10) No. 35: Hayano Wasuke Tsunenari. 11) No. 39:En'ya Hangan Takasada. 12) No.: 45 Sumino Juheiji Tsugufusa. Signed: Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke. Date: c. 1847-1848. 14 ) Plus one color woodblock print. Ôban tate-e. Series: ''Taiheiki eiyuden'' (Heroes of the Great Peace). No. 29, Shioren Sajima-no-kami Masataka. Signed: Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga. Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi. Date: c.1848-50.
Minor wear, partly slighty soiled, some with only few worm holes, some slightly trimmed and backed, mounted in Passepartout