KUNISADA: kakuban surimono (21.2 x 18.8cm.); a double portrait of the actors Ichikawa Danjuro VIII (Ichikawa Ebizo VI) in the role of Namazu Bozu before a portrait of his father Ichikawa Danjuro VII in a square mimasu crest cartouche, the crest repeated on his robe, with two poems by Hoshutei Funauta and Hoshitei (Masunari), signed Kochoro Kunisada ga and with double toshidama seal, silver and brass dust--very good impression and color, a pin hole within the crest

Details

KUNISADA: kakuban surimono (21.2 x 18.8cm.); a double portrait of the actors Ichikawa Danjuro VIII (Ichikawa Ebizo VI) in the role of Namazu Bozu before a portrait of his father Ichikawa Danjuro VII in a square mimasu crest cartouche, the crest repeated on his robe, with two poems by Hoshutei Funauta and Hoshitei (Masunari), signed Kochoro Kunisada ga and with double toshidama seal, silver and brass dust--very good impression and color, a pin hole within the crest

Provenance

Theodor Scheiwe, sold in these Rooms, March 21, 1989, lot 185

Lot Essay

Another impression is illustrated in Charlotte Van Rappard-Boon, Japanese prints IV--Hiroshige and the Utagawa school (Amsterdam: Rijksprenten kabinet/Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1984), no. 146, p. 86