Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A COLLECTION OF SEVEN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT TRIPTYCHS
MEIJI ERA (1868-1912)

38cm x 26cm max. (21)

Including:
-1: A Japanese vertical oban woodblock print triptych by Ginko Adachi (act. c.1874-1897), depicting five actors impersonating characters from the kabuki play Ichi-no-Tani futaba gunki (Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani), 1877;
-2: a vertical oban woodblock print triptych by Utagawa Kokunimasa (1874-1944), depicting Fukushima Yasumasa's Siberian Expedition, 1893;
-3: a vertical oban woodblock print triptych by Utagawa Kunimasa V (Baidō Kokunimasa, 1874-1944), depicting Kabuki actors;
-4: a vertical oban woodblock print triptych by Inoue Yasuji (Tankei, 1864-1889), entitled Sūmitsuin kaigi no zu (Illustration of a Meeting of the Privy Council), 1888; signed Inoue Tankei, published by Kodama Matashichi;
-5: a vertical oban woodblock print triptych by Shogetsu Toshu (1850-1900), entitled ‘A picture of feudal lords visiting the Ueno mausoleum on the 10th day of the New Year‘, 1889;
-6: a vertical oban woodblock print triptych by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), depicting actors in the kabuki play Kanto Meibutsu Otokodate Kagami (Notable Figure of Kanto Region, Mirror of Manliness);
-7: and a vertical oban woodblock print triptych by Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III, 1786-1864), depicting actors in a kabuki play, one possibly the actor Bandō Mitsugorō III as Shirafuji Genta.