Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV as Igami no Gonta and Bandô Shûka I as His Wife Kosen - 1848 - Utagawa Kunisada (1785-1865) - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)
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Standing bijin - ca 1800-20s - Utagawa Toyohiro 歌川豊廣 (1774-1830) - Japan - Mid Edo period
Original woodblock prints - Paper -Utagawa Toyohiro 歌川豊廣(1774-1830) - "Bijinga"美人画(Beautiful woman painting) - Japan - 1800-30
This Ukiyo-e has cardboard pasted on the back.
tagawa Toyohiro (歌川豊広, 歌川豐廣), birth name Okajima Tōjiro (1773–1828), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist and painter. He was a member of the Utagawa school and studied under Utagawa Toyoharu, the school's founder. His works include a number of ukiyo-e landscape series, as well as many depictions of the daily activities in the Yoshiwara entertainment quarter; many of his stylistic features paved the way for Hokusai and Hiroshige (the latter a prodigy who studied under Toyohiro, becoming one of the very finest of all landscape artists), as well as producing an important series of ukiyo-e triptychs in collaboration with Toyokuni, and numerous book and e-hon illustrations, which occupied him in his later years.
The ukiyo-e series he produced include the following:
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Standing bijin - ca 1800-20s - Utagawa Toyohiro 歌川豊廣 (1774-1830) - Japan - Mid Edo period
Original woodblock prints - Paper -Utagawa Toyohiro 歌川豊廣(1774-1830) - "Bijinga"美人画(Beautiful woman painting) - Japan - 1800-30
This Ukiyo-e has cardboard pasted on the back.
tagawa Toyohiro (歌川豊広, 歌川豐廣), birth name Okajima Tōjiro (1773–1828), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist and painter. He was a member of the Utagawa school and studied under Utagawa Toyoharu, the school's founder. His works include a number of ukiyo-e landscape series, as well as many depictions of the daily activities in the Yoshiwara entertainment quarter; many of his stylistic features paved the way for Hokusai and Hiroshige (the latter a prodigy who studied under Toyohiro, becoming one of the very finest of all landscape artists), as well as producing an important series of ukiyo-e triptychs in collaboration with Toyokuni, and numerous book and e-hon illustrations, which occupied him in his later years.
The ukiyo-e series he produced include the following:
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