Utagawa Yoshitsuya

1822-1866

Fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge
(Ryogoku oohanabi no zu)

each sheet signed Ichieisai Yoshitsuya ga, with artist's stylized kiri seal, and publisher's seal To (Yamaguchiya Tobei), double nanushi censor seals within the composition, Kinugasa (Kinugasa Fusajiro) and Yoshimura (Yoshimura Gentaro), 1849

oban tate-e triptych 14 1/2 by 29 1/4 in., 36.8 by 74.4 cm

Reference:
Ota Memorial Museum of Art (www.ukiyoe-ota-muse.jp), Utagawa Yoshitsuya: The Unkown Desciple of Kuniyoshi Exhibition, 2011 August 2nd-26th, catalogue no. 68

(inv. no. C-3586)

price: $4,400