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Scene from the kabuki play "Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura ("Sukeroku, The Flower of Edo") - Utagawa Kunisada III (1848-1920) - Japan - Meiji period (1868-1912)
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Scene from the kabuki play "Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura ("Sukeroku, The Flower of Edo") - Utagawa Kunisada III (1848-1920) - Japan - Meiji period (1868-1912)

From Right to Left: Kabuki actors Ichikawa Sadanji as Migi kara shirozake uri / Nakamura Fukusuke as Shira-dama / Nakamura Shikan as Higenoikyū/ Ichikawa Danjūrō as Hanakawado no Sukeroku / Suketakaya Takasuke as Age Maki / Bandō Kakitsu as Fukuyama Venue: Shintomi·za (Toyko) Signature: Toyohara Kunichika hitsu (imitated by) Baidō Kunimasa ga Publisher: Komiyama Shōhei With relief printing and mica powder in the middle panel. Very slightly creased Edo’s most famous dandy and most beautiful courtesan. Sukeroku, a renowned dandy in Edo, is an enfant terrible who is popular in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters but prone to picking fights. His lover, the glittering courtesan Agemaki, is equally feisty and no pushover for her admirers. The show is a virtual parade of charismatic characters on the glamorous stage of Yoshiwara.

No. 99496372

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Scene from the kabuki play "Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura ("Sukeroku, The Flower of Edo") - Utagawa Kunisada III (1848-1920) - Japan - Meiji period (1868-1912)

Scene from the kabuki play "Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura ("Sukeroku, The Flower of Edo") - Utagawa Kunisada III (1848-1920) - Japan - Meiji period (1868-1912)

From Right to Left: Kabuki actors Ichikawa Sadanji as Migi kara shirozake uri / Nakamura Fukusuke as Shira-dama / Nakamura Shikan as Higenoikyū/ Ichikawa Danjūrō as Hanakawado no Sukeroku / Suketakaya Takasuke as Age Maki / Bandō Kakitsu as Fukuyama

Venue: Shintomi·za (Toyko)

Signature: Toyohara Kunichika hitsu (imitated by) Baidō Kunimasa ga
Publisher: Komiyama Shōhei

With relief printing and mica powder in the middle panel.

Very slightly creased

Edo’s most famous dandy and most beautiful courtesan.
Sukeroku, a renowned dandy in Edo, is an enfant terrible who is popular in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters but prone to picking fights. His lover, the glittering courtesan Agemaki, is equally feisty and no pushover for her admirers. The show is a virtual parade of charismatic characters on the glamorous stage of Yoshiwara.

Final bid
€ 85
Giovanni Bottero
Expert
Estimate  € 150 - € 200

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