Name: Six woodblock prints
Brand: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Price: 800.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Six woodblock prints comprising:
The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V as Kezori Kuemon, woodblock print, published by Fujiokaya Hikotaro (Shogendo), 8th month 1840

Three woodblock prints from the series Nijushi-ko doji kagami [Twenty Four Paragons of Filial Piety for Children]:

Moso walking through the snow carrying a hoe, to collect bamboo shoots to make soup for his mother, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, circa 1843
Taishun hoeing a field with the help of elephants and a flock of sparrows, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, circa 1843
Kakkyo and his wife unearthing a pot of gold in the hole they were digging in order to bury their infant son, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, circa 1843

Two prints from the series Morokoshi nijushi ko [The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China]:

Taishun, [Shun the Great], signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, circa 1848
Moso, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, circa 1848
The first vertical oban (35.1 x 24.6cm.)
The second horizontal oban (24 x 35.8cm.)
The third horizontal oban (24 x 35.8cm.)
The fourth horizontal oban (24 x 36cm.)
The fifth vertical chuban (24.7 x 17.2cm.)
The sixth vertical chuban (24.2 18.2cm.)

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For another impression of the first in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, see www.mfa.org accession number 11.21902.

For another impression of the second, third and fourth in the British Museum see www.britishmuseum.org museum numbers 2008,3037.16902, 2008,3037.16901 and 2008,3037.16909 respectively.

For another impression of the fifth and sixth in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston see www.mfa.org accession numbers 11.30098 and 11.30109.

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