Japanese Woodblock Prints | Including the Sokolov Collection

Japanese Woodblock Prints | Including the Sokolov Collection

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) Fifty woodblock prints from Stories of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai (Seichu gishi den), Edo period, 19th century

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) 

Fifty woodblock prints from Stories of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai (Seichu gishi den)

Edo period, 19th century  


Fifty woodblock prints, from the series Stories of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai (Seichu gishi den), each sheet signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, and with artist's paulownia seal, omitted on three prints, with varying censor's seals Hama (Hama Yahei), Kinugasa (Kinugasa Fusajiro), Muramatsu (Muramatsu Genroku), Yoshimura (Yoshimura Gentaro), Mera (Mera Ta’ichiro) and Murata (Murata Sahei), published by Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudo), circa 1847-48

Each vertical oban:

each approx. 35.7 x 24.8 cm. 

The set including:

1. Oboshi Yuranosuke Yoshio

2. Oboshi Rikiya Yoshikane

3. Yato Yomoshichi Norikane

4. Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane

5. Shikamatsu Kanroku Yukishige

6. Yoshida Sadaemon Kanesada

7. Sakagaki Genzo Masakata

8. Yukukawa Sanpei Munenori

9. Onodera Junai Hidetomo

10. Isoai Juroemon Masahisa

11. Okano Gin'emon Kanehide

12. Senzaki Yagoro Noriyasu

13. Yazama Jujiro Motooki

14. Otaka Gengo Tadao

15. Kataoka Dengoemon Takafusa

16. Nakamura Kansuke Tadatoki

17. Okashima Yasoemon Tsunetatsu

18. Teraoka Heiemon Nobuyuki

19. Uramatsu Handayu Takanao

20. Tokuda Sadaemon Yukitaka

21. Oribe Yahei Kanamaru

22. Kiura Okaemon Sadayuki

23. Katsuta Shinemon Taketaka

24. Takebayashi Sadashichi Takashige

25. Kurahashi Zensuke Takeyuki

26. Aihara Esuke Munefusa

27. Tominomori Sukeemon Masakata

28. Ushioda Masanojo Takanori, without artist’s paulownia seal

29. Hayami Sozaemon Mitsutaka

30. Onodera Toemon Hidetome

31. Chiba Saburohei Mitsutada

32. Oboshi Seizaemon Nobukiyo

33. Sugenoya Sannojô Masatoshi, without artist’s paulownia seal

34. Oribe Yasubei Taketsune

35. Hayano Wasuke Tsunenari

36. Yata Goroemon Suketake

37. Tokuda Magodayu Shigemori

38. Kono Musashi no Kami Moronao

39. En'ya Hangan Takasada

40. Yazama Shinroku Mitsukaze

41. Mase Magoshiro Masatatsu

42. The lay priest Ryuen, Uramatsu Kihei Hidenao

43. Yazama Kihei Mitsunobu

44. Mase Chûdayu Masaaki

45. Sumino Juheiji Tsugufusa

46. Hara Goemon Mototoki

47. Hayano Kanpei Tsuneyo

48. Kaida Yadaemon Tomonobu

49. Miura Jiroemon Kanetsune

50. Yoshida Chuzaemon Kanesuke, without artist’s paulownia seal, sealed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi



For similar impressions of each of the fifty prints in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/collections