£90 - £100
Utagawa Kunisada III, Japanese Legend, Kabuki Theatre, Meiji PeriodHidari JIngoro from the series Eighteen Best Kabuki Plays. Original Japanese Woodblock Print.
Publisher: Ishii Rokunosuke
Date: 1890
Dimensions: (L) 25.5 x 34 (C) 25.7 x 33.9 (R) 25.6 x 34 cm
Hidari Jingoro was known as an artist of prodigious skill and stories of his genius abound in Japanese popular literature. According to one, he saw a woman of exceptional beauty and created a sculpture of her. Jingoro begins to drink in the company of the sculpture, and it begins to imitate his moves. When a mirror is placed before the sculpture, the woman's spirit comes to life.
Several pinholes. Vertical fold marks on each panel. Horizontal centrefold on central panel. Some blue and red pigment.
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