RYUKOSAI: hosoban (32 x 14.3cm.); a full-length portrait of the actor Ichikawa Danzo IV as a samurai crossing his hands inside his black robe, signed Ryokosai and published probably by Shioya Rinzo--good impression, slightly faded and creased and soiled along edges, upper left corner damaged, a few minute worm holes restored

Details

RYUKOSAI: hosoban (32 x 14.3cm.); a full-length portrait of the actor Ichikawa Danzo IV as a samurai crossing his hands inside his black robe, signed Ryokosai and published probably by Shioya Rinzo--good impression, slightly faded and creased and soiled along edges, upper left corner damaged, a few minute worm holes restored

Provenance

Theodor Scheiwe, sold Christie's, New York, Japanese Prints, Paintings, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Collection of the late Theodor Scheiwe, Part I, March 21, 1989, lot 160.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Rose Hempel, Ausstellung Japanische Holtzschnitte (Munster: 1959), no. 176, p. 106; and Rose Hempel, Kunst Aus Japan (Essen: 1972), no. 400, p. 237.

Another impression without the publisher's seal is illustrated in Matsudaira, Kamigata ukiyo-e nihyakunen ten (Tokyo: 1975), no. 12.