Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

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Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825) | Actors performing in the play Sukeroku, The Flower of Edo | Edo period, late 18th - early 19th century

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Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)

Actors performing in the play Sukeroku, The Flower of Edo

Edo period, late 18^th - early 19^th century

woodblock print, triptych, each sheet signed Toyokuni ga (Pictured by Toyokuni), censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Maruya Bun’emon (Bunjudo), circa 1798; each with collector’s seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso

Vertical hosoban triptych: each approx. 31.5 x 15 cm., 12⅜ x 5⅞ in.

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Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769-1825), Acteurs jouant dans la pièce Sukeroku, La fleur d'Edo, époque Edo, fin XVIIIe - début 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, 27^th December 1990 - 8^th January 1991

Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24^th - 29^thJanuary 1991

Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), no. 54.

Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 43, no. 1-56.

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