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Utagawa KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)		from: Taiheiki eiyu-den (Heroic Biographies from the 'Tale of the Grand Pacification') - no. 50: Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598) -
		Signed:                         Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga Date:                             1847-50 Censor's seal:              Murata Publisher:                    Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Size:                              ôban tate-e (c. 37 x 25.5 cms / c. 14 1/2" x 10") Condition: FINE impression, color and condition. - Thin album backing, small binding holes along the left margin. ref. no.:  # 773356-1 Price:     € 650.00

"On this print Hideyoshi appears great and simple as popular mythology expects a real leader to look. He is gazing kindly at a kneeling commoner, wicker baskets with melons standing on both of his sides. In his right hand Hideyoshi is holding his naked blade ready to cut the melon that rests on his outstreched left palm." (*) - (The full description will come with the print.) Reference: - B.W. Robinson, "KUNIYOSHI - The Warrior Prints"; Oxford, 1982; series: S.62, no. #25. - E. Varshavskaya, "Heroes of the Grand Pacification"; Amsterdam, 2005, no. #50 (*).

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