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「豊国院貞匠画僊居士」「香蝶楼豊国肖像」(死絵)
Memorial Portrait of Utagawa Kunisada I (Kôchôrô Toyokuni shôzô)
「豊国院貞匠画僊居士」「香蝶楼豊国肖像」(死絵)
Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1), 12th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 37.2 x 25.7 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number53.450
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Kuniyoshi & Kunisada (2016), p. 49, fig. 3; Marks, Japanese Woodblock Prints (2010), p. 126; Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa-ha (Kobijutsu special issue, 1986), #267
Signed
Kôshi (loyal son) Kunisada sha
孝子国貞写(年玉印)
孝子国貞写(年玉印)
Marks
Censor's seal: Rat 12 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：子十二改
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：子十二改
彫師：なし
Inscriptions「二代目歌川豊国本姓角田氏通称肖造始名五渡亭国貞ト云 元治元甲子年十二月十五日没 寿八十歳亀戸亀命山光明寺葬」「辞世 一向に弥陀へまかせし筆のやすさ只何事も南無阿弥陀仏」
Provenance1953, sold by Warren E. Cox to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 14, 1953)