• Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫) from the series <i>Tōto Meisho</i> with <i>Ryogoku</i> in the background (東都名所 - 両国)
Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫) from the series <i>Tōto Meisho</i> with <i>Ryogoku</i> in the background (東都名所 - 両国)
Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫) from the series <i>Tōto Meisho</i> with <i>Ryogoku</i> in the background (東都名所 - 両国)

Utagawa Toyokuni II (二代目歌川豊国) (artist 1777 – 1835)

Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫) from the series Tōto Meisho with Ryogoku in the background (東都名所 - 両国)

Print


1830s
10.125 in x 14.625 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print

Signed: Toyokuni ga (豊国画)
Artist's seal: toshidama gourd-shaped in red
Publisher: Ezakiya Tatsuzō (Marks 059 - seal 21-092)
Censor's seal: kiwame
Lyon Collection - another print from this series
Royal Museums of Art and History, Belgium (via Cultural Japan) - another print from this series - attributed to Kunisada

The bridge in the background is the Ryōguku.

From ca. 1830, and a few years after that, various artists - including Kuniyoshi, Toyokuni II and Kunisada - and publishers - including Ezakiya Tatsuzō, et al. - posed figures before aizuri-e backgrounds. This followed the import of the new and dramatic Prussian blue pigment.

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There is another print from this series in the Lyon Collection - #607.
Ezakiya Tatsuzō (江崎屋辰蔵) (publisher)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
landscape prints (fūkeiga 風景画) (genre)
blue prints (aizuri-e - 藍摺絵) (genre)
Nakamura Shikan II (二代目中村芝翫: 11/1825 - 12/1835) (actor)