Kunisada: Onoe Matsusuke I with Pipe

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Artist: Utagawa Kunisada
Title: Onoe Matsusuke I with Pipe
Series:   The Life of Oboshi the Loyal (Seichu Oboshi ichidai banashi)
Date: 1847-52 
Signature: Kochoro Toyokuni ga

 Oban    36.195 x 22.5 cm.  Very good impression, color and condition.  Tiny wormhole near right top.

Number eleven:  The kabuki actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Oboshi Yuranosuke.  He looks sternly at Arashi Kanjuro I as Katsusuke, who holds a painting showing two travelers.  Matsusuke's robe has been overprinted with a lead pigment which has oxidized, giving it an interesting texture.  Outside their room we see rain falling.

SKU: KUS450