Scene from the kabuki play 'Koharu Nagi Okitsu Shiranami' 小春穏沖津白浪 - 1864 - Paper - Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880) - Japan - Late Edo period
Winter scene from Japanese mythology. A samurai with a sword belted around his waist aims his rifle at two female figures. Directly in front of him, on the middle sheet, one flies barefoot through the snowy landscape, while on the right sheet a traveler in a grey kimono with a large stretcher on her back observes the scene. All this in heavy snowfall
Signed: Toyokuni (= Kunisada)
Moved around 1860
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Very good print and colors. Not cropped.
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Frank Lapisch Collection (lived and collected in Japan in the 1960s and 70s)
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: https: //collections. mfa. org/objects/190442
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Well packaged, insured and shipped with DHL
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Winter scene from Japanese mythology. A samurai with a sword belted around his waist aims his rifle at two female figures. Directly in front of him, on the middle sheet, one flies barefoot through the snowy landscape, while on the right sheet a traveler in a grey kimono with a large stretcher on her back observes the scene. All this in heavy snowfall
Signed: Toyokuni (= Kunisada)
Moved around 1860
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Very good print and colors. Not cropped.
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Frank Lapisch Collection (lived and collected in Japan in the 1960s and 70s)
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: https: //collections. mfa. org/objects/190442
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Well packaged, insured and shipped with DHL