UTAGAWA KUNISADA: kakuban diptych (each plate 21.2 x 18.2 cm.); full-length portraits of the actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII in the role of Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo, here disguised as Musashibo Benkei, and Bando Mitsugoro III as Minamoto no Yoshitsune, in the play Tsukisenu haru gohiiku Soga, probably performed at the Ichimura-za in 1/1827, with accompanying poems by Matsunoya Kisei and Shoeitei Tsukiyoshi, each signed Gototei Kunisada ga -- good impressions, slightly faded and soiled, otherwise good condition

Details

UTAGAWA KUNISADA: kakuban diptych (each plate 21.2 x 18.2 cm.); full-length portraits of the actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII in the role of Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo, here disguised as Musashibo Benkei, and Bando Mitsugoro III as Minamoto no Yoshitsune, in the play Tsukisenu haru gohiiku Soga, probably performed at the Ichimura-za in 1/1827, with accompanying poems by Matsunoya Kisei and Shoeitei Tsukiyoshi, each signed Gototei Kunisada ga -- good impressions, slightly faded and soiled, otherwise good condition

Provenance

Sidney Ward, sold in these rooms November 5, 1985, lot 117

Literature

For another impression in the collection of the Musees royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, see Kozyreff et al (1989) no. 940, pl. CLV