KUNISADA: kakuban surimono (21 x 18 cm.); the left panel of a triptych depicting a standing portrait of Bando Mitsugoro III as Yamagatsu Kumao weilding a giant silver axe etched with flames in a scene from the play Kawaranu hana Genji no kaomise, with a single poem by Oguan Sobito, signed Gototei Kunisada ga--very good impression, slightly faded and worming restored, light soil toward corners

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KUNISADA: kakuban surimono (21 x 18 cm.); the left panel of a triptych depicting a standing portrait of Bando Mitsugoro III as Yamagatsu Kumao weilding a giant silver axe etched with flames in a scene from the play Kawaranu hana Genji no kaomise, with a single poem by Oguan Sobito, signed Gototei Kunisada ga--very good impression, slightly faded and worming restored, light soil toward corners

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From the Collection of the late Werner Schindler

Lot Essay

This is the left-hand panel of a triptych probably issued for the New Year of 1828. See Izzard, Kunisada's World (New York: Japan Society/Ukiyo-e Society, 1993), no. 49, p. 114