MITSUCHIKA ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF YAMAZAKI (Utagawa Kuniyoshi)
$486.00
Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: ukiyo-e 浮世絵 pictures of the floating world
Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (1797-1861), signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga 一勇斎国芳画
From the series: Heroes of the Taiheiki 太平記英勇傳
Print title: Toki Jurozaemon Mitsuchika 登喜十郎左衛門光隣, no. 38 卅八
Print subject: the samurai Mitsuchika 光隣 on the battlefield of Yamazaki 山崎 wandering amongst the heaps of corpses
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi 山本屋平吉 (Eikyudo 栄久堂)
Censors’ seals: Mera 米良, Murata 村田
Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing
Period: ca. 1848-49
Condition: reasonable, some stains, central vertical fold, slight oblique fold in the upper part of the sheet, partially trimmed margins
Dimensions: 23,5 x 36 cm
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