1786-1865

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Utagawa Kunisada
1786-1865
The three upper prints of the hexaptich Odori keiyo gakuya no zu (View of the Dressing Rooms of a Newly Constructed Theater), each signed Toyokuni ga and published by Kansendo (Izumiya Ichibei) in 1856 - good impressions and colour, pasted down on paper at the top corners in the wrong sequence, very slight creasing and rubbing near the corners
Oban tate-e: 37.5 x 25.5 cm. approximately (3)

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Lot Essay

This print is likely to have been commissioned for the re-opening of the Ichimura theater in 1856, a year after the Ansei earthquake had destroyed the theater district in Edo. For an illustration of the six prints and a further discussion thereof, see S. Izzard, Kunisada's World, Japan Society, New York 1993, p. 176, pl. 92

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