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Dimensions: Each sheet 14 x 9 inches<br />
Code: SOX<br />
Price [Framed]: £550<br />
V. Daiyonjûnikan. Niou no Miya. [Chapter 42: His Perfumed Highness]<br />
Date [Western]: 1859<br />
Date [Japanese]: Ansei 6<br />
Signature: Toyokuni-ga within a toshidama cartouche<br />
Censor/Zodiacal Date Seal: Combined aratame [‘examined’] and date seal [yagi<br />
ichi/goat 1]<br />
Publisher’s Seal: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi<br />
Carver: Yokogawa Takejiro<br />
School: Utagawa<br />
Method: Nishiki-e woodblock print with karazuri<br />
Format: Ôban tate-e diptych<br />
Condition: Excellent with fine karazuri; pristine colour with the fugitive purple intact<br />
Dimensions: Each sheet 14 x 9 inches<br />
Code: SOX<br />
Price [Framed]: £550<br />
3. Utagawa Kunisada [Utagawa Toyokuni III] (1786-1864)<br />
Blossom Viewing [Hanami]<br />
Series: Tôsei Genji [Modern Day Genji]<br />
Date [Western]: 1859<br />
Date [Japanese]: 10 th Month <strong>of</strong> Ansei 6<br />
Censor/Date Seal: Combined aratame [‘examined] and zodiacal date seal [yagi jû/goat<br />
10]<br />
Signature: Toyokuni-ga within a toshidama cartouche<br />
Publisher’s Seal: Ki-ya Sojiro<br />
Carver: Kosen<br />
School: Utagawa<br />
Method: Nishiki-e woodblock<br />
Format: Ôban tate-e triptych<br />
Condition: Excellent<br />
Dimensions: Each sheet 15 x 9 3/4 inches<br />
Price [Framed]: £750<br />
This rare triptych, similarly drawing on the rambunctious Inaka Genji gôkan, depicts<br />
Mitsuuji [Genji] in elaborate cold weather attire watching an inebriated group <strong>of</strong> spring<br />
revellers frolic under the blossom, the court ladies accompanying him closely resembling a<br />
courtesan and her kamuro. Dominating the composition, his exaggerated stature recalls lines<br />
from ‘The Festival <strong>of</strong> the Cherry Blossoms’ [Hananoen], Chapter 8 <strong>of</strong> Genji monogatari,<br />
describing the prince at a hanami party: ‘Genji dressed himself with great care…He wore a<br />
robe <strong>of</strong> thin white Chinese damask with a red lining and under it a very long train <strong>of</strong><br />
magenta. Altogether, the dashing young prince, he added something new to the assembly<br />
that so cordially received him…He quite overwhelmed the blossoms, in a sense spoiling the<br />
party.’<br />
4. Utagawa Kunisada [Utagawa Toyokuni III] (1786-1864)<br />
Admiring Suzumushi [Bell Crickets] on a Summer Evening<br />
Date [Western]: 1860<br />
Date [Japanese]: Tenth month <strong>of</strong> Man-en 1/Ansei 7<br />
Signatures: Toyokuni-ga [middle and right-hand panels]; Kunihisa-ga [left-hand<br />
panel]<br />
Censor/Date Seal: Combined aratame-date seal [saru jû/monkey 10]<br />
Publisher’s Seal: Moriya Jihei
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