Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 50951

Print by Utagawa Toyokuni I (1820)

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Toyokuni I歌川豊国
Date / 年代: 1820
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / kruml
Digital record / 画像記録: 1312 × 1488 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Japanese Prints London
Published by / 公開者: 紫藤メイ
Rights / 権利: No commercial-app permission documented
Attribution / 表記: Japanese Prints London

Catalog note / 解説

A wonderful design showing the actor Ichikawa Ebizo VI ( Danjuro VIII ) holding a large umbrella with his face reflected in a mirror held by an acolyte. Two poems above by Sakuragawa Jihinari and Jihinari’s son Oya no Omokage. In fact these two writers also composed poems for two other Toyokuni surimono of Danjuro around the same date, c. early 1820s. ( See The Art of Surimono, Roger Keyes, 1985, no. 348, p. 400 and One Hundred Surimono in the collection of Sidney C. Ward, 1976, no. 50, p. 62. ) Extremely rare. Fine impression. Minor creasing and turning of purple, otherwise very good colour and condition. Signed Toyokuni ga. Status: Sold

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