Name: UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1864)
Brand: Two woodblock prints
Price: 900.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1864)
Two woodblock prints
Each a woodblock print, and comprising:

A Good Day for Many Things (Yorozu yoshi), from the series A Floral Calendar: Women on Lucky Days (Hana goyomi kichihi sugata), signed Kunisada aratame nidai Toyokuni ga, censor’s seal Tanaka (Tanaka Heishiro), published by Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindo), circa 1843-47

The Actor Nakamura Fukusuke I, from the set Fashionable Firefly-hunting (Hotaru-gari fuzoku), signed Toyokuni ga, censor’s seal aratame, published by Ebisuya Shoshichi (Kinshodo), 3rd month 1860
Each vertical oban:
The first: 37.1 x 24.8 cm. (14⁵⁄₈ x 9³⁄₄ in.)
The second: 35.4 x 25.1 cm. (14 x 10 in.)

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For the complete set of the first print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 11.42145a-d, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/476126/fashionable-fireflyhunting-hotarugari-azuma-fuzoku-acto

The second print is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 11.40977, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/471960/a-good-day-for-many-things-yorozu-yoshi-from-the-series-a3
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