KUNISADA, UTAGAWA (1786-1865)
$4,500.00 Regular Price
$2,250.00Sale Price
"Girl Reading" (1852)
(Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road)
original woodblock print (oban)
34.5 x 24cm
signed centre right
*private collection, Sydney
Kunisada was the most popular, prolific and commercially 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.