Ukiyo-e Prints

浮世絵版画

formerly Port Townsend, Washington

now Kansas City, Missouri

UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI III

三代目歌川豊国

1786-1865

Role: Nyōbō Seki-jō

関女

Play: Yoshitsune Koshigae-jō

義経腰越状

Size: 10" x 14 1/8"

Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizō

蔦屋吉蔵

Signature: Kōchōrō Toyokuni ga

 署名: 香蝶楼豊国画

Date: 1849-53

Censors: Fuku & Muramatsu

福

村松

ふく

むらまつ

Condition: Good color, some soiling and thining. Unbacked.

Small holes and some worm holes in the lower right of the

onnagata's robes.

There is a copy of the full triptych in the

Museum of Palazzo Poggi in Bologna. There is also

a copy of the single panel in the collection of the

University of Michigan. There is also the full triptych

in an album at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Originally $185.00

Now $125.00

SOLD!

The University of Michigan gives a description

of the play that this print is based on.

"Yoshitsune’s Letter from Koshigoe is part of the Heike-Genji cycle of plays recounting the wars featuring the two prominent warrior families, the Taira (Heike) and the Minamoto (Genji). This play references Minamoto Yoshitsune’s petition to his brother, Yoritomo, victor of the recent war with the Heike. The play also parodies events at the foundation of the Tokugawa shogunate at the beginning of the 17th century. In this parody, Yoritomo represents Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, and Yoshitsune represents Toyotomi Hideyori, the son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi."

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA

HOW MANY PEOPLE AND/OR INSTITUTIONS

OWN JUST ONE PRINT FROM A TRIPTYCH?

A LOT!

THAT IS WHY WE ALWAYS LIKE TO SHOW YOU WHAT THE REST OF THE TRIPTYCH

LOOKS LIKE WHENEVER WE HAVE ACCESS TO THE OTHER PANELS.