Name: Not a Very Lucky Day
Brand: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Price: 4500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION OF PRINTS BY UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Senbu [Not a Very Lucky Day] from the series Rokuyosei Kuniyoshi jiman [Kuniyoshi’s Analogies for the Six Conditions of Nature]

Woodblock print, signed Choro Kuniyoshi ga, published by Uoya Eikichi, 1860
Vertical oban (36.7 x 25cm.)

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Here the 12th century figure Endo Morito (later known as the priest Mongaku Shonin) is shown doing penance for thirty-seven days under the freezing Nachi waterfall for accidentally killing his lover Kesa Gozen. He is assisted by two of Fudo Myo's attendants Seitaka and Kongara in the top right of the design.

For another impression of this design in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston see www.mfa.org accession number 60.D07.37 and for another in the British Musuem, see www.britishmuseum.org museum number 2008,3037.14204.

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