UTAGAWA KUNISADA I / TOYOKUNI III (1786-1864)

UTAGAWA KUNISADA I / TOYOKUNI III (1786-1864)

UTAGAWA HIROSADA (ACT. 1825-75)

TAKAHASHI SHOTEI / HIROAKI (1871-1945)

KO SUKOKU (1730-1804)

EDO AND LATER, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

Three Japanese prints and a painting, the first a woodblock print by Kunisada entitled 'Mirror Mountain at Musa Station (with actor Onoe Shoroku I as Tsubone Iwafuji)', from the series 'The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road' (1852); another woodblock print by Utagawa Hirosada depicting a man holding a child (c.1849); the third a print on board by Shotei entitled 'Rain on Izumi Bridge' (c.1927); the ink painting by Ko Sukoku (1730-1804), depicting the drunk Chinese poet Li Bai (701-762) supported by two young boys, 42.5cm x 30cm max. (4)

Provenance: from an English private collection, London.