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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865)

Y 06129

Three beautiful ladies as pilgrims on the beach of the Sagami bay near the Enoshima peninsula. In the background Mount Fuji.

Title: Enoshima mτde (Pilgrimage to Enoshima)

Signature: Kunisada aratame nidai Ichiyτsai Toyokuni ga (Kunisada changing his name to Toyokuni II)

Publisher: Nunokichi
Censor's seal: Fu (Fukatsu Ihei)

Date: ca 1844/45
Size: Oban triptych, ca 37 x 76 cm (paper size)

Fair impression and colours. Not mounted, not put together, margins not trimmed. Throughout creased, a tiny bit soiled, a few small spots due to the printing process, and a few very small wormholes. Each print with an old blue Japanese stamp (not identified) at the lower part of the back side. On the whole still in a very good condition. A really rare triptych.

Compare: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, No 11.43636a-b (there with the two right prints only)

€ 780,-

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