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UTAGAWA KUNISADA I (TOYOKUNI III, 1786-1864) TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) AND UTAGAWA YOSHITORA
Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1857 (ACTIVE ABOUT 1836-1887)
Comprising an oban tate-e triptych, an oban tate-e diptych, and two oban Edo period (1615-1868) to Meiji era (1868-1912), 1847-1893
tate-e prints: the triptych entitled Natsu shiranu niwa no ryofu (Forgetting Comprising two oban tate-e print triptychs and five oban tate-e prints:
Summer’s Heat in the Cool Breezes of the Garden), actors Ichikawa the first entitled Fukushima no yakata ni oite Naoyuki kori o taijiru zu
Yonejuro II, Sawamura Tossho II (right), Kawarazaki Gonjuro I , Iwai (Naoyuki Conquers the Old Badger at Fukushima’s Mansion), 1866,
Kumesaburo III (center), and Nakamura Fukusuke I (left), 1858, censor’s published by Tsujiokaya Bunsuke, censor’s seal tora ju aratame, signed
seal uma shi; the diptych entitled Meiyo jinseroku, Kumokiri Ninzaemon Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu (right and left sheets), Kaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu
and Tabakoya Kihachi, 1852, censor’s seals Mera, Watanabe, ne shichi, (center sheet); Tsuki no katsura, Gogo (Cassia-Tree Moon: Wu Gang),
Shitauri, both published by Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido); Igano Kotaro and Ginga no tsuki (The Moon of the Milky Way), both 1886, Dokusho
Tomoyuki and Iga Ichibu no jo Mitsumune no rei (Ghost of Mitsumune), no tsuki, Shiraku (Reading by Moonlight: Zi Luo), 1888, each from the
1852, published by Minatoya Shobe, censor’s seals Fuku, Muramatsu, ne series Tsuki hyakushi (100 Aspects of the Moon), published by Akiyama
roku; each signed Toyokuni ga; the last Hokke Chobe, 1859, published by Buemon; Shinano no kuni no koshi Zennojo (Zennnojo, the Filial Child of
Uoya Eikichi, censor’s seal hitsuji ju aratame, signed Shimoto ni konomi Shinano Province), 1893, and Sato Shirobe Tadanobu, from the series
Toyokuni ga (4) Kokoku nijushi ko (24 Paragons of Imperial Japan), published by Matsuki
13 7/8 x 28 5/8in (35.4 x 72.7cm) three sheets joint Heikichi, each signed Yoshitoshi; the last entitled Oeyama kijin taiji no zu
14 1/2 x 19 3/8in (36.8 x 49cm) two sheets joint (Exterminating the Ogres of Mount Oe), 1847-1852, published by Ebisuya
14 1/2 x 10in (37 x 25.7cm) Shoshichi, each signed Kinchoro Yoshitora ga (7)
14 1/4 x 9 3/4in (36.4 x 24.7cm) 13 3/4 x 28 3/4in (35 x 73cm) three sheets joint
14 3/8 x 9 5/8in (36.5 x 24.5cm) each approximately
$1,000 - 1,500 14 3/8 x 29 1/4in (36.7 x 74.5cm) three sheets joint
$1,500 - 2,000
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