Kunimasa - Beloved Concubine

Utagawa Kunimasa

Actors from the Kabuki play “Beloved Concubine Time Bird Spirit Nakamura Fukusuke”. 傾城逢州 岩井松之助.  愛妾時鳥霊 中村福助  

Utagawa Kunimasa was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Utagawa school. He was originally from Aizu in Iwashiro Province and first worked in a dye shop after arriving in Edo. It was there that he was noticed by Utagawa Toyokuni, to whom he became apprenticed.

Publisher: Unknown

Date: 1887

Condition: Very good color and impression, margins as shown. Backed on Edo era paper.

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