Utagawa Kunisada. Gotenyama, from the series ‘A Collection of Mountains’ / Fan print, 1859.
Title: Gotenyama [御殿山] – one of the most popular cherry blossom viewing spots; it is a hill at Shinagawa [品川], the second station on the Tōkaidō road [東海道], located on the shores of Edo Bay [江戸湾].
Series: A Collection of Mountains [山つくし] (Yama tsukushi)
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada [歌川 国貞] a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代歌川豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 12 January 1865).
Block carver: Yokokawa Takejirō, seal: [彫竹] – Hori Take.
Publisher: Yama-Ta; seal: [板元, 太] – Hanmoto, Ta; Marks 19-044 | U421b: An unknown publisher in Edo, fl. c. 1815-61.
Combined date seal and kiwame censor seal: Ansei 6 (1851).
Signed: Toyokuni ga [豊国 画] in a red toshidama cartouche.
Size: Fan print (uchiwa-e) 227 x 287 mm.
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| Period | 19 AD, Ansei era [安政] (11/1854 –3/1860), Edo Period (1603 – 1868), Mid-19th century |
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| Subject | Beautiful woman (bijin-ga), Beauty, Cherry Blossom (sakura), Mountains, Shinagawa [品川] |
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| Artist | Utagawa Kunisada [歌川 国貞] a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代歌川豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865) |
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