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KUNISADA, Utagawa.

Tokaido gojusantugi no uchi [53 Stations of the Tokaido].

Stock Code
91249
[Japan, 1830
£6,500

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful creator of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in Japan in the 19th century. Ukiyo-e flourished from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. The term translates as 'picture(s) of the floating world', referring to the pleasure-seeking aspects of the Edo period (1600-1867). The subjects of the woodblock prints and paintings included female beauties, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, scenes from history and folk tales, and erotica.

This beautiful album of chuban tate-e wood block prints (chuban - a print approximately 18 x 25 cm; tate - a print in portrait format) includes 55 prints in classic ukiyo-e style with a beautiful lady in front of a landscape, with most of the landscape designs taken from the Hoeido edition of Hiroshige's The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido. The prints are published by either Sanoya Kihei or Moriya Jihei or both, with censor's seal kiwame,

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Title page and 55 of 56 prints (lacking the station Goyu), each sheet in chuban tate-e format (25 x 18.5cm approx.) Contemporary boards, with fuchsia pink decorative endpapers.

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