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Item #108505807

Toyohara Kunihchika, "Geji 54 jo, No.36"

Item No

#108505807

Item

Ukiyo-e(People)

Artist

Toyohara Kunichika

Price

$70.00

Weight

0.01kg

size

width

23cm 9"

height

35cm 13 3/4"

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This is the story about a flute of Kashiwagi who left it behind as a memento shown in The Tale of Genji, Vol.36.
In this artwork depicted is a woman playing the flute with a winsome look in a room wide open. She looks looking at a shade on the bamboo blind. Apparently, she is seducing the man with her beautiful tunes, and she is wriggling playing the flute.

Good condition, colors and impression.

Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900) was a Japanese woodblock print artist. Talented as a child, at about thirteen he became a student of Tokyo's then-leading print maker, Utagawa Kunisada. His deep appreciation and knowledge of kabuki drama led to his production primarily of ukiyo-e actor-prints, which are woodblock prints of kabuki actors and scenes from popular plays of the time.
An alcoholic and womanizer, Kunichika also portrayed women deemed beautiful (bijinga), contemporary social life, and a few landscapes and historical scenes. He worked successfully in the Edo era, and carried those traditions into the Meiji era. To his contemporaries and now to some modern art historians, this has been seen as a significant achievement during a transitional period of great social and political change in Japan's history.