Album with one hundred prints, oban tate-e by : - Lot 64

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Album with one hundred prints, oban tate-e by : - Lot 64
Album with one hundred prints, oban tate-e by : - Utagawa Shigenobu (Hiroshige II) (Japan, 1826-1869) Fifty-seven oban tate-e from the series Edo meisho zue, Famous Views of Edo, from a series of at least seventy-one plates. Signed Hiroshige ga. Publisher shorindo, 1861-1864. - Toyohara Kunichika (Japan, 1835 -1900) Seventeen oban tate-e: - portrait of actor performing seppuku. Signed Kunichika hitsu. - Six oban tate-e from the series Hyakuyaku chôju meishû soroe, Assortment of sake brands, good for health, including actors Shikan, Kakitsu and Tanosuke. Signed Kunichika hitsu. Publisher Hori Cho. 1866. - Ten oban tate-e from the Hauta Tora no maki series, How to make 'hauta' songs work. Signed Kunichika ga. Publisher Etsuka. - Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japan, 1786-1865) AND VARIOUS ARTISTS Twenty-six oban tate-e from the series Edo no hana meishô-e, Edo flowers and famous views, from a series of seventy plates. Publisher Katoya Seibei. The Edo no hana meisho-e series is one of Toyokuni III's major projects. For each plate, he is accompanied by another artist from the Utawaga school or another school. A total of twenty artists worked on this series. The "Edo flowers" are a reference to the fires that regularly set the city ablaze. Each plate illustrates the lantern and matoi, the banner used by firefighters to warn of a fire in progress, of each of Edo's fire departments (hikeshi). (Stains, cut margins) Dim. 35.4 x 23.9 cm
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