A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION OF PRINTS BY UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI

Utagawa Yoshitomi (active circa 1848–80)
Memorial Portrait of Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi

Woodblock print, signed Ichigeisai Yoshitomi ga, artist's seal yoshikiri, published by Shinagawaya, 3rd month 1861

Vertical oban (35.7 x 24.4cm.)

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Suffering from gout, Kuniyoshi died on the 5th day of the 3rd month of Bunkyu 1 (14th April 1861). In this memorial portrait, Kuniyoshi is shown followed by his pupil Yoshifusa (active 1837–1860), who is carrying a bundle of his master's artists materials. Two of the poems are by Kuniyoshi's life-long friend the Kyoka poet Umeya Kakuju.

For another impression in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, see www.mfa.org accession number 11.37316 and also Yuriko Iwakiri and Amy Reigle Newland, Kuniyoshi: Japanese Master of Imagined Worlds, (Leiden, 2013), p. 19, fig. 11.

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