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A Print by Utagawa Kunihisa II - Edo browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Woodblock Prints: Pre 1900: item # 982318 Please refer to our stock # ICHI 43 when inquiring.
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This is a framed print by Utagawa Kunihisa II (1832-1891) - a pupil and son-in-law of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. It portrays two women by a stream that flows by a garden fence. One of the women is kneeling and the other is bent over as if to look for something in the water. (I seem to recall some legend about a shogun’s palace floating cups on saucers down stream once a year for people to collect – but I cannot find any reference to that so I am probably just having a “senior moment”). There are pine trees over the women’s heads and lovely water plants at the waters edge. The picture in the frame measures 19” by 15” – the image is 14” by 10 ¼” – oban size. The print is in good condition – the registration is fine but the colors have faded a bit. (The rectangular yellow spot in the upper left corner is a reflection of a ceiling light during the photographing.)We date the print to the late Edo to early Meiji period, circa 1850s – 1890. It has a small paper label on the back identifying it as by Kunihisa II. An expert framer in museum mounting framed it. |
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