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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Shono

1852

About the Item

Shono. Series: Actors from the 53 Stations of the Tokaido. Station 46. Date: 1852 (rat ). Actor: Bando Hikosaburo IV . Role: Nakano Tobei. Publisher: Sumiyoshiya Masagoro. Censors' seals: Hama, Magome. Signed: Toyokuni ga. Size: vertical oban (14 x 10). Gaufrage (embossing) in the actor's robe. Light soiling in the actor's cheek; good color The Yakusha Tokaido by Kunisada Utagawa is a large series of actor portraits in front of a landscape design of the Tokaido stations. The designs combined two popular ukiyo-e subjects, actor portraits and Tokaido landscape prints. The series was ostensibly published as a landscape series to circumvent the censorship ban on kabuki actor prints introduced by the Tokugawa shogunate with the Tenpo reforms from 1841/42.
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