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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
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| Dec 5, 2023 | A fold-out album with woodblock prints; Triptych: “The Nineteen Retainers of Yoshitsune” (Yoshitsune no jukkushin); Triptych: “Takeshiuchi no Sukune [Kato Kiyomasa] sails toward Korea” | Stockholms Auktionsverk | Stockholm | ||||
Prints & Multiples
36 x 24.2 cm (14.17 x 9.53 in)
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From a Swedish private collection.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Triptych: “The Nineteen Retainers of Yoshitsune” (Yoshitsune no jukkushin), published by Izumiya. Ichibei (Kansendo), c. 1836.
: Robinson; Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), T32.
A fold-out album with woodblock prints by; Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III, 1797-1865), and Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880).
Comprising 43 woodblock prints (including one title page), 2 diptychs and 12 triptychs, as follow;
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Triptych: “The Nineteen Retainers of Yoshitsune” (Yoshitsune no jukkushin), published by Izumiya. Ichibei (Kansendo), c. 1836.
Robinson; Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), T32.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Triptych: “Takeshiuchi no Sukune [Kato Kiyomasa] sails toward Korea”, published by Iseya Tsurujiro, c. 1849-52.
Robinson; Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), T234.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Triptych: “Ma Chao Fights Mightily at the Bridge on the Wei River; Cao Cao Cuts His Beard and Escapes” (Bacho oi ni Isuikyo ni tatakau, Soso hige o kitte haiso su), from: “Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms” (Tsuzoku Sangokushi no uchi) published by Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido), 1853.
Blockcutter: Tsuge Shojiro (Hori Shoji).
Engravings of European paintings were available in Japan in Kuniyoshi"s time, and this triptych may have been influenced by Paolo Uccello"s "Battle of San Romano".
Robinson; Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), T306.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Triptych: Untitled. This triptych was listed as “Tokiwa-gozen and Her Children in the Snow” by Robinson in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) based on his having seen only the left sheet. However, the privately published supplement states “This turns out to be a theatrical triptych, the production so far unidentified”. The roles are Tokiwa-gozen (left), Yaheibee Munekiyo (center), and Munekiyo"s wife (tsuma) Kashiwagi (right), published by Izutsu-ya Shokichi, 1853.
Robinson; Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), T308.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Triptych: Untitled, from: The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon Chushingura), published by Mitaya Kihachi, 1854.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Five woodblock prints from: “Auspicious Desires on Land and Sea” (Sankai medetai zue);
No 10. “Wanting to Have Good Weather” (Tenki ni shitai)/“Dried Bonito from Tosa Province” (Tosa katsuobushi): Landscape by Utagawa Yoshitori-jo (1839-c.1870), published by Mitaya Kihachi, 1852.
Nos. 25. “Seaweed from Shinagawa” (Bushu Shinagawa nori): Landscape by Utagawa Yoshitori-jo (Japanese,1839- c.1870), published by Mitaya Kihachi, 1852.
No 38; “Wanting to Tweeze the Nape of the Neck” (Eri o nukitai)/“Air Bladders of Fish from the Sunomata River in Totomi Province” (Totmi Sunomatagawa fue): Landscape by; Utagawa Yoshitori-jo (1839- c.1870), published by Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudo), 1852.
No. 51; “Completely Useless” (Totto yakutai)/“Dried Abalone Strips from Hoki Province” (Hoki noshi): Landscape by Utagawa Yoshitori-jo (1839- c.1870), published by Mitaya Kihachi, 1852.
No. 70; “Wanting to Go and See What It Will Be Like” (Donnadaka itte mitai)/“Salmon from Ezo” (Ezo sake): Landscape by; Utagawa Yoshi-jo (Japanese, 1842-c.1885), published by Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudo), 1852.
Robinson, Kuniyoshi (London, 1961), 117.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Diptych; Untitled, Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the monk Tenjitsubo (left) and Bando Shuka I as a high ranking courtesan (right), from the play: “Azuma kudari gojusan tsugi” (Fifty-three post stations along the Azuma), published by Iseya Kanekichi, 1854.
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III, 1786-1864);
The complete series of 36 woodblock prints (+ title page); “An Excellent Selection of Thirty-Six Noted Courtesans” (Meiji sanjuroku kasen), published by Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido), 1861.
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III, 1786-1864);
Okazaki, the No. 2 (Sono ni): (Actor Onoe Baiko IV) as Masaemon"s Wife Otani, from “Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road” (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), published by Iseya Kanekichi, 1852.
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejiro (Hori Take).
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III, 1786-1864)
Diverse actor prints among others; Two diptychs and six triptychs, mid 19th century.
Utagawa Kunisda II (1823-1880),
Triptych; “Fight on the roof of the Horyukaku Tower of Koga Castle”, from the book “The Eight Dog Heroes of Satomi (Satomi hakkenden inu no soshi no uchi, Horyukakujo no zu), published by Tsutaya kichizo (Koeido), 1854.
Vertcial oban 36 x 24,2 cm.
From a Swedish private collection.
![A fold-out album with woodblock prints; Triptych: “The Nineteen Retainers of Yoshitsune” (Yoshitsune no jukkushin); Triptych: “Takeshiuchi no Sukune [Kato Kiyomasa] sails toward Korea” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi](https://liveart-analytics.imgix.net/lots/5619286/9e12ea0712c144fd5594e008b539c89b?w=1280&h=960 "A fold-out album with woodblock prints; Triptych: “The Nineteen Retainers of Yoshitsune” (Yoshitsune no jukkushin); Triptych: “Takeshiuchi no Sukune [Kato Kiyomasa] sails toward Korea” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi")