Kabuki drama "Sukeroku Yukari no Edozakura" (Sukeroku, the flower of Edo) - Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) - Japan - Late Edo period

Original woodcut. Original woodcut.

Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900)
Title: Kabuki drama "Sukeroku Yukari no Edozakura" (Sukeroku, the Flower of Edo)
Year: 1867

Characters and actors depicted:
A left: The courtesan Miuraya Shiratama (smiling and sly).
Center: The otokodate (street warrior / popular hero) Hanakawado Sukeroku with a kimono decorated with a crane.
Right: The character Torii Shinzaemon, looking threateningly while gripping the hilt of a sword, wearing a blue cloak decorated with demon heads.

Unusual use of Prussian blue in a triptych.

Condition: support, vertical folds along the right edges of the left and center panels, small dent at the top in the left panel.

N.B. NOT shipped to Israel

It will be packed with extreme care, and with reinforcement.
All made to measure.
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