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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 70. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) | Sakata no Kintoki, Usui Sadamitsu and Genji Tsuna subdue monsters while playing go (Shumenosuke Sakata no Kintoki, Takiguchi no toneri Genji Tsuna, Dakoe no jo Usui Sadamitsu) | Edo period, 19th century.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) | Sakata no Kintoki, Usui Sadamitsu and Genji Tsuna subdue monsters while playing go (Shumenosuke Sakata no Kintoki, Takiguchi no toneri Genji Tsuna, Dakoe no jo Usui Sadamitsu) | Edo period, 19th century

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) 

Sakata no Kintoki, Usui Sadamitsu and Genji Tsuna subdue monsters while playing go

(Shumenosuke Sakata no Kintoki, Takiguchi no toneri Genji Tsuna, Dakoe no jo Usui Sadamitsu)

Edo period, 19th century 


woodblock print, triptych, the centre sheet signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, censor's seal aratame, published by Yamaguchiya Tobei (Kinkodo), 1st month 1861 


Vertical oban triptych: 

Left sheet: 35.8 x 24.5 cm., 14⅛ x 9⅝ in. 

Centre sheet: 35.8 x 26 cm., 14⅛ x 10¼ in. 

Right sheet: 35.8 x 25.5 cm., 14⅛ x 10⅛ in. 

Gaëlle Rio and Yuriko Iwakiri, Kuniyoshi, le démon de l'estampe, (Paris Musees, 2015).



Paris, Petit Palais, Kuniyoshi, le démon de l'estampe, 1 October 2015 - 17 January 2016.