Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) - series and prints

"Famous Restaurants from the Eastern Capital"
(other translation: Famous Storytellers´s Theater in the Eastern Capital)

Toto Komei Kaiseki Zukushi

a series by Kunisada and Hiroshige

OVERVIEW
Kunisada is being responsible for the figures and Hiroshige for the landscapes and still-lifes in this series. Charlotte van Rappard-Boon writes to it: "A series designed by Kunisada and Hiroshige for the publisher Fujiokaya Keijiro, who gives his address on the prints as Tori Aburacho. The prints have a landscape, probably near the restaurants, and a still-life above. Below an actor in a stage role. The title is in a black cartouche in the upper-right-hand corner. The roles are difficult to identify. The series was designed 1852-1853. Suzuki, 1971, p193 mentions 49 prints" (Hiroshige and the Utagawa school, Amsterdam, 1984, p 98f). A Japanese reprint of this set from 1979 includes 50 prints and a full discription of all these prints. From Kimberly Norman I got all the informations recorded in this book. Many thanks! If you have any further matching informations please send them to: horstgraebner@kunisada.de go to Data

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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) - series and prints