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KUNISADA. Yakusha-e. Half-length portrait of a Kabuki actor.

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KUNISADA. Yakusha-e. Half-length portrait of a Kabuki actor.
 
Utagawa KUNISADA (Toyokuni III).
1786-1864

Yakusha-e. Half-length portrait of a Kabuki actor. 
Around 1832 - 1834

Polychrome woodcut. 381x260 mm, trimmed within margins. Sign left near the margin: “Kochoro Kunisada ga”. Under the signature: Artist's seal, double toshidama in red. Censor's seal: kiwame. Publisher’s mark of Omiya Heihachi. Print pasted on support card. Some minor defects.

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A fine Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print. It is probably the famous actor Ichikawa Ebijûrô I, 1777-1827. Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-ewoodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.
Omiya Heihachi, Edo print publisher (Marks 413). Artists published by this house include Eisen, Eizan, Kunisada, Kuniyasu, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, Shunko, Shunsho II, Shuntei, Toyokuni I and Toyokuni II. There is not much known about the publisher Omiya Heihachi apart from his location at Nihonbashi Yagenboricho. His earliest publications date to 1811 when he began to issue actor prints and prints of beautiful women.

Bibliografia

Quoted from: Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks 1680-1900 by Andreas Marks, p. 254.
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