UTAGAWA HIROSADA (fl.1820 - 1860), UTAGAWA KUNISADA (TOYOKUNI III) (1786-1864), UTAGAWA YOSHIMORI (1830 - 1884) AND UTAGAWA YOSHITAKI (1841 - 1899)

Description:

Japan, late Edo / Meiji period
18 - 38 x 17 - 25 - 35 cm
1 - 3) Utagawa Hirosada: Two Chûban tate-e, coloured woodblock prints. Actor on a terrace during full moon. Signature and seal: Hirosada and seal. Date: 1845 -50. 2) Title: ''Futyu Hokko awase''. Nakamura Tamashichi as Sanshichiro Nobutaka in the play ''Keisei Haru no Tori''. Signature: Hirosada. Date: c. 1849. 3) Chûban tate-e, actor on a terrace. 4) Utagawa Kunisada: Chûban tate-e, colour woodcut. Series: ''Ima Genji Nishiki-e Awase'' (Collected Brocade Pictures of a Modern Genji)). Couple on a terrace during full moon. Publisher: Sanoya Kihei. Date: ca. 1852 -54. 5) Utagawa Yoshimori: Ôban tate-e, colour woodblock print, part of a triptych. Title: ''Higashiyama Yoshimasa kô Yoshino no yûran no zu''. Signed: Ikkōsai Yoshimori ga. Publisher: Ômiya Kyûjirô. Censor's seal: Aratame. Date: ca. 1863. 6 - 7) Utagawa Yoshitaki: Double-page book, colour woodblock print . Actors Arashi Rikan and Bandô Hikosaburo in the play: Futatsu chôchô kuruwa nikki. Double page, woodbloc prints, with warriors. 8) Chûban tate-e. Colour woodblock print. Bijin.
Minor wear, partly backed, some slighthy trimmed and stained, only few with traces of worms, mounted in passepartout