A COLLECTION OF TEN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS

A COLLECTION OF TEN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
MEIJI ERA (1868-1912)

32.5cm x 25.2cm max. (10)

Including two diptychs and seven single prints:
-1: the first an oban tate-e by Utagawa Kunisada I / Toyokuni III (1786–1864) depicting the geisha Otomi, 1860; signed Toyokuni ga; published by Ezakiya Tatsuzo; with censor’s seal aratame;
-2: another oban tate-e woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada I / Toyokuni III (1786–1864), the left-hand sheet of a triptych entitled Okonomi sankai ni tenmaku o miru zu (Your Favorites on the Third Floor Looking at a Curtain), 1861; depicting actor Nakamura Shikan IV, signed Toyokuni ga in a toshidama cartouche; published by Maruya Jinpachi (Marujin, Enjudō), with censor's seal Chicken 10 aratame;
-3: a diptych by Utagawa Kunisada I / Toyokuni III (1786–1864), the two oban tate-e woodblock prints depicting two men in a wooded setting;
-4: the central and right-hand side panels of a tripcyh by an unidentfied artist depicting revellers,
-5: an oban tate-e print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862), the right-hand sheet of a diptych, depicting actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Kanō Motonobu, 1848; signed Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga; published by Minatoya Kohei and with censors' seals for Yoshimura and Maramatsu;
-6: another oban tate-e by Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV, 1823–1880), depicting an actor in a kabuki play, the character tied up to a tree by a rope;
-7: an oban tate-e print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862), the central sheet of a triptych entitled Konrei ironaoshi no zu (The Bride Changing Clothes after the Wedding Ceremony), signed Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga, 1843-47; published by Iseya Ichiemon and with censor's seal Hama;
-8: a woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada or Kuniyoshi depicting a man before Mount Fuji; from an album of prints dedicated to the Hyakunin Isshu, a collection of one hundred waka poems by one hundred different poets, 1849;
-9: and an oban tate-e print by Isoda Koryūsai (1735–1790) of two beauties in an interior.