Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) | Hour of the Monkey (Saru no koku) | Edo period, 19th century
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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)
Hour of the Monkey (Saru no koku)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, from the series An Actor Sundial (Haiyu hidokei), signed Gototei Kunisada ga (Gototei Kunisada), and with artist’s square seal Sada, published by Iwatoya Kisaburo (Eirindo) in 1816; with collector's seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso
Vertical oban: 39.3 x 26.9 cm., 15½ x 10⅝ in.
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Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), L'heure du singe, époque Edo, XIXe siècle
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection], exhibited at the following venues:
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Osaka, 27th December 1990 - 8th January 1991
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24th - 29th January 1991
Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), no. 60.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 49, no. 1-71.
This print is from a rare series featuring actors engaged in relaxing pursuits in everyday situations. Six designs are known. Here an onnagata actor sits on a bamboo bench summer beside flowering fringed-pinks (nadeshiko).
For a similar impression of the same print, see Sebastian Izzard, Utagawa Kunisada: His World Revisited (New York, 2021), pg. 66-7, no. 11.
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