Kunisada,Fan Style Ukiyo-e of Beauty,Ajisai from Musume Gesho
Item No
#108000300
Item
Ukiyo-e(Beauty)
Artist
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Price
$2200.00
Weight
0.01kg
size
width
29cm 11 1/2"
depth
22cm 8 3/4"
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Utagawa Kunisada (1786 - 1865) who was also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III(He called himself Toyokuni II) was the most popular, prolific and financially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.
He started out doing actor prints, the initial specialty of the Utagawa school, but eventually branched out into bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women in Japanese art). During his lifetime, he produced a vast number of prints (estimated by some sources to be more than 20,000).
Here is one of the Uchiwa-e he produced, and literally Uchiwa-e is a "e" (a picture) painted on a "Uchiwa" (a fan). It is said that commoners in Edo period cut out such Ukiyo-e in the shape of Uchiwa and created their own Uchiwa.
For this Uchiwa, against the background of a hydrangea a woman who is shaving her eyebrow in front of a mirror is depicted. Like this Uchiwa, generally patterns which made people feel cool were preferably used for it.
At the red and yellow rectangular cartouches to the upper right, the title of this work " Musume Geshou Hana no Iroiro / Ajisai hydrangea from the series of Makeup of Girls and Flowers" is shown. At the gourd shaped box to the bottom right, the Rakkan (an article's sign and seal) "Kunisada aratame (is changed for) Toyokuni II) is given.
Good impression and color Small stain and warmholes
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