Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

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Torii Kiyotomo (active circa 1720-1740) | The actor Ichikawa Danjuro II in the role of Soga no Goro | Edo period, 18th century

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Torii Kiyotomo (active circa 1720-1740)

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro II in the role of Soga no Goro

Edo period, 18^th century

woodblock print, sumizuri-e, with hand-applied colour, signed Torii Kiyotomo hitsu (Brush of Torii Kiyotomo), circa 1716-36; with collector’s seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso

Vertical hosoban: 32.4 x 15.8 cm., 12¾ x 6¼ in.

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Torii Kiyotomo (act. 1720-1740), L'acteur Ichikawa Danjuro II, époque Edo, XVIIIe siècle

Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)

The print is inscribed with Ichikawa Danjuro II's (1688-1758) prologue from the start of the kabuki production (kojo).

A similar impression of the same print is in the collection of the Edo Tokyo Museum, collection ID 94203117.

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