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Contest of Popular Beauties (Ryûkô bijin awase)


流行美人合
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 x 25.4 cm (14 1/16 x 10 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3214.9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tôshûsai sale cat. no. 23 (7/2011), #144 (complete triptych); another triptych in the series (?): POLA Research Inst., Edo bijin no yosooi (2018), pp. 44-7
DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych; title is on right sheet.

MFA impressions: 11.15107, 17.3214.9
Signed Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
香蝶楼国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極