UTAGAWA TOYOSHIGE (TOYOKUNI II) (1777 - 1825) AND UTAGAWA KUNISADA I (TOYOKUNI III) (1786 - 1864)

Description:

Japan, late Edo period
35,5 - 36 x 24,5 - 25 cm
Five Ôban tate-e, woodblock prints. 1 - 3) Utagawa Kunisada: Right side of a diptych. Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of Iwafuji (Iwafuji no boôrei). Signed: Toyokuni ga. Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô). Date: ca. 1860. 2) Man and sennin with scroll by the sea with a flock of birds. Signature: Toyokuni ga, censorship: Aratame. Date: 1857. 3 -4 ) Two colour woodblock prints from the series: 'Jûhachiban no uchi'' (Eighteen great Kabuki plays). Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tawara no Tôda Hidesato and Ichikawa Ebizo V as Soma no Masakado / Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Narukami Shōnin, Ichikawa Komazō VII as Kokuunbō, and Ichikawa Saruzō as Hakuunbō. Signature: Toyokuni ga. Date 1852. 5) Utagawa Toyoshige: Kabuki actor in a female role with sewing utensils. Signature: Toyokuni ga. Censorship: Aratame.
Minor wear, partly slighty damaged at the magins, some backed and trimmed, mounted in passepartout