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KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa  (1797 - 1861)

Nino-o jugo-dai Jingo Kogo Sankan seibatsu Takenouchi - Japanese troops attacking a Korean city -

Signed:                  Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, with kiri seal Publisher:             Yamashiro-ya Heisuke (?) Censor's seal:      Fu (Fukatsu Ikei) Date:                       c. 1845 Size:                        oban triptych (c. 37 x 26 cms / c. 14 1/2" x 10 1/4", each sheet) Condition: Very good impression and color, binding holes along margins, else very good. FULL paper size. ref. no.:              # 601810 Price:                 € 1,500.00

Under the direction of Takeshiuchi-no-sukune Japanese troops lever an enormous rock over a precipice above a Korean city. - In Asian art, and in particular in Japanese landscape prints clouds are mostly depicted in the form of horizontals bands or 'tubes'; Kuniyoshi, however, - often applying western-style elements to his prints -, designed the layer of clouds in a style adopted from European copperplates. Reference:  - B. W. Robinson, Kuniyoshi- The Warrior prints, London, 1982, no. T145, ill. pl.55 (this impression).

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