Utagawa Kunisada II — Bandō Hikosaburō als Ukiyo Matahei, der Ōtsu-e-Maler. - Japan - Meiji Periode (1868-1912)






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Originall L arbeitet Utagawa Kunisada II Holzschnitt aus der Meiji-Zeit (ca. 1860er–70er), Ōban-Format (tate-e, nishiki-e) ca. 36 × 24 cm, Darstellung Bandō Hikosaburō als Ukiyo Matahei, signiert Baidō Kunisada, in ausgezeichnetem Zustand, Herkunft aus einer Privatsammlung, Herkunftsland Japan.
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Artist: Utagawa Kunisada II 二代歌川国貞, signing Baidō Kunisada 梅堂國貞筆 (1823–1880)
Series: "A Contest of Famous Flowers", title cartouche upper right
Subject: Ukiyo Matahei 浮世又平, played by Bandō Hikosaburō 坂東彦三郎
Date: Bakumatsu to early Meiji, c. 1860s–1870s
Format: Ōban tate-e, nishiki-e approx. 36 * 24cm
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Condition: Excellent, fresh colours. Minor trimming, largely confined to the area outside the image. Please refer to the images for full condition details.
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About the print:
A half-length actor portrait set against a flat, saturated crimson ground, with an inset landscape panel (koma-e) framed at the top of the sheet.
The role is Ukiyo Matahei, the semi-legendary Ōtsu-e painter of the Genroku era — the figure Chikamatsu dramatised as the stammering artist Dōmo no Matahei in Keisei Hangonkō, and one of the enduring folk-heroes of the Japanese print world. Kunisada identifies him unmistakably by dressing him in his own creations: the robe carries the Oni no Nenbutsu (the demon in priest's robes with gong and mallet), the single most famous of all Ōtsu-e motifs, worked in green against scarlet flames. More painted figures crowd behind his shoulder, together with the white paper streamers of a votive gohei. The conceit — an artist wearing his own pictures — is the kind of visual pun the Utagawa school did particularly well, and it gives this sheet more interest than a standard actor bust.
The koma-e above shows a cherry-blossom scene with wooden signboards and a thatched teahouse, in the manner of an Edo meisho vignette. Read alongside the series title Meika Kurabe, it suggests the set paired kabuki roles with celebrated flower-viewing places — a common mitate structure in the period.
Printing quality is high: fine hairline carving in the wig and sideburns, careful registration across the flame pattern, and the deep unbroken red ground that Utagawa-school publishers used to make a single sheet carry across a shop window.
Der Verkäufer stellt sich vor
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada II 二代歌川国貞, signing Baidō Kunisada 梅堂國貞筆 (1823–1880)
Series: "A Contest of Famous Flowers", title cartouche upper right
Subject: Ukiyo Matahei 浮世又平, played by Bandō Hikosaburō 坂東彦三郎
Date: Bakumatsu to early Meiji, c. 1860s–1870s
Format: Ōban tate-e, nishiki-e approx. 36 * 24cm
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Condition: Excellent, fresh colours. Minor trimming, largely confined to the area outside the image. Please refer to the images for full condition details.
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About the print:
A half-length actor portrait set against a flat, saturated crimson ground, with an inset landscape panel (koma-e) framed at the top of the sheet.
The role is Ukiyo Matahei, the semi-legendary Ōtsu-e painter of the Genroku era — the figure Chikamatsu dramatised as the stammering artist Dōmo no Matahei in Keisei Hangonkō, and one of the enduring folk-heroes of the Japanese print world. Kunisada identifies him unmistakably by dressing him in his own creations: the robe carries the Oni no Nenbutsu (the demon in priest's robes with gong and mallet), the single most famous of all Ōtsu-e motifs, worked in green against scarlet flames. More painted figures crowd behind his shoulder, together with the white paper streamers of a votive gohei. The conceit — an artist wearing his own pictures — is the kind of visual pun the Utagawa school did particularly well, and it gives this sheet more interest than a standard actor bust.
The koma-e above shows a cherry-blossom scene with wooden signboards and a thatched teahouse, in the manner of an Edo meisho vignette. Read alongside the series title Meika Kurabe, it suggests the set paired kabuki roles with celebrated flower-viewing places — a common mitate structure in the period.
Printing quality is high: fine hairline carving in the wig and sideburns, careful registration across the flame pattern, and the deep unbroken red ground that Utagawa-school publishers used to make a single sheet carry across a shop window.
