Jisei usugeshō’ (komori)
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Full Title: Jisei usugeshō’ (komori)
Date: C1826
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (1786 - 1864)
Condition: Minor soiling to sheet edges and above the image, otherwise in good condition.
Technique: Woodblock printed in colour.
Paper Size: 244mm x 370mm
Description: Early c.19th woodblock a baby sitter by Toyokuni the most popular financially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.
Artist:
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (1786 – 1864) / or Utagawa Toyokuni III
Toyokuni was the most popular, prolific and financially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.