KUNIYOSHI   (1797-1861). The wife of Uramatsu. (Sold)

KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861). The wife of Uramatsu. (Sold)

Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Subject: The wife of Uramatsu Handayū tying up a thief.
Series: Seichū gishin den (Stories of the faithful hearts).
Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and kiri seal.
Date: 1847-8. Censors seals Muramatsu and Yoshimura.
Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke.
Size: Oban tate-e, 36x24,6 cm
Medium: Woodblock color print.
Literature: Basil W. Robinson. Kuniyoshi The Warrior-Prints. Oxford, 1982, S56, no. 13. Another impression is illustrated and described in David R. Weinberg. Kuniyoshi. The faithful samurai. Amsterdam, 2000, no. II-13.
Conditions: Good impression, some restorations otherwise in good conditions.
Item no: C 581
Status: Sold