GROVE OF THE WATER GOD (Utagawa Kunisada)

Object: original Japanese woodblock prints
Genre: ukiyo-e 浮世絵 pictures of the floating world

Artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (1786-1865), signed Toyokuni ga 豊国画
Print title: Grove of the Water God 水神森
Print subject: actors Ichikawa Ichizo III 三代目市川市蔵 as Dekiboshi no Sankichi 出来星ノ三吉 and Ichikawa Shinsha I 初代市川新車 as Samon’s daughter Omine 左門娘おみね

Play: Tanomimasu Soga no Kamigaki 頼三升曽我神垣
Theater: Morita 守田

Publisher: Kiya Sojiro 木屋宗次郎 (Kobokudo 紅木堂)
Carver: Koizumi Kanegoro 小泉兼五郎, marked Hori Kane 彫兼
Censor’s seal: Goat 3 aratame 未参改

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Year: 1859, 3rd month
Condition: fair, right signs of aging, small imperfections on the margins, slight deterioration of the paper on the woman’s face
Overall dimensions: 49,5 x 35,5 cm

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