KUNIYOSHI  (1797-1861). Kanetsune. (Sold)

KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861). Kanetsune. (Sold)

Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Subject: Miura Jirōemon Kanetsune falling backward into a hearth.
Series: Seichu gishi den (Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai s.c the forty-seven ronin).
Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and kiri seal.
Date: 1847-8. Censor seals Muramatsu and Yoshimura.
Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke.
Size: Oban tate-e, 37x25,3 cm.
Medium: Woodblock color print
Literature: Basil W. Robinson. Kuniyoshi The Warrior-prints. Oxford, 1982, S53, no. 49. David R. Weinberg. Kuniyoshi. The faithful samurai. Amsterdam, 2000, no. 49
Conditions: Very good impression with gofun simulating the ash, very good colour and conditions.
Item no: C 577