No. 98626483

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Kabuki actor Arashi Rikan III as Hotei Ichiemon 布袋市右衛門 - 1852 - Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (1786–1865) - Japan -  Edo Period (1600-1868)
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Kabuki actor Arashi Rikan III as Hotei Ichiemon 布袋市右衛門 - 1852 - Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (1786–1865) - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)

Hotei Ichiemon was a highly popular kabuki actor and rogue. This work is guaranteed authentic by Hara Shobo, a long-established gallery of Edo-period prints. Author: Utagawa Kunisada (1786 – 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代歌川豊国), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered Japan's most popular, prolific, and commercially successful ukiyo-e designer of the 19th century. During his time, his reputation far surpassed that of his contemporaries Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Kuniyoshi. See Tokyo Metropolitan Library: http://archive.library.metro.tokyo.jp/da/detail?tilcod=0000000003-00015446

No. 98626483

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Kabuki actor Arashi Rikan III as Hotei Ichiemon 布袋市右衛門 - 1852 - Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (1786–1865) - Japan -  Edo Period (1600-1868)

Kabuki actor Arashi Rikan III as Hotei Ichiemon 布袋市右衛門 - 1852 - Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (1786–1865) - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)

Hotei Ichiemon was a highly popular kabuki actor and rogue.

This work is guaranteed authentic by Hara Shobo, a long-established gallery of Edo-period prints.

Author:
Utagawa Kunisada (1786 – 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代歌川豊国), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered Japan's most popular, prolific, and commercially successful ukiyo-e designer of the 19th century. During his time, his reputation far surpassed that of his contemporaries Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Kuniyoshi.

See Tokyo Metropolitan Library: http://archive.library.metro.tokyo.jp/da/detail?tilcod=0000000003-00015446

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€ 115
Giovanni Bottero
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Estimate  € 300 - € 400

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