Hirosada
(active 1820 - 1860)

Actors / roles (left to right): Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Nagoya Sanza, Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fuwa Banzaemon and Mimasu Daigorô IV as Sasaki Kurando
Play: Act 4 of Inazuma Sôshi / Satomoyô Kabuki no Inazuma performed 9/1850 (Kaei 3) at the Naka Theater
Publisher: Kawaoto
Dimension: vertical chuban triptych
Lit.: Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 106; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #313

Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(1797 – 1861)

Fujito hama Sasaki Moritsuna etc.

Sasaki Moritsuna and his troops fording the Inland Sea at sunrise to attack the Taira at Kojima Castle in Bizen on November 1, 1184


Signature: Kuniyoshi ga, with Kiri seal
Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei
Date: Late 1849-1850
oban tate-e triptych
see in B.W. Robinson "Warrior Prints" T220
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SADAHIDE
(1807 - 1873)

Great procession with hundreds of people
Prozession mit hunderten von Menschen

Signature / Signatur: --- Sadahide ga
Publisher / Verleger: Kobayashi Taijirō (Bunseidō)
Date / Datum: c.1850's
Censor's seal / Zensorsiegel: Mera
Dimension / Format: oban tate-e triptych each sheet approx 35 x 25 cm

TOYOKUNI III / KUNISADA
(1786 - 1865)

Women carrying a dragon at a procession
Frauen einen Drachen auf einem Umzug tragend

Signature / Signatur (right sheet / rechtes Blatt): oju Kochoro Toyokuni ga, with Toshidama seal / mit Toshidama Siegel
Publisher / Verleger: Iba-ya Senzaburo
Date / Datum: c.1850's
Censor's seal / Zensorsiegel: Watanabe
Dimension: oban tate-e triptych each sheet approx 37 x 25 cm

Utagawa Yoshitora
(active c.1840-80)

Ujigawa Kassen no Zu
The Battle at Uji River. Sasaki Takatsuna and Kajikawa Kagesue, and their horses and retainers fording the river to attack Kiso Yoshinaka.

Publisher: Daikoku-ya Heikichi
Date: c.1840's
Oban tate-e triptych: each sheet 14.5" x 9.75" approx
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Utagawa Sadahide
(1807 - 1873)

Zen Taiheiki Tsukushi Katsuzen no Zu
Fire under the Star Light
1843-50

Signature: Gyokuransai Sadahide
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tobei
Censors seals: Hama and Magome
oban triptych 36.5 cm x 75 cm
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Katsukawa Shuntei
(1770 - 1820)

Yoshinaka's battle at Hinogawa in the northern provinces.

left to right: Nenoi fighting Ishida, Yoshinaka's wife Tomoe Gozen fighting Uchida Saburo, Imai Shiro and kiso Yoshinaka in the right sheet.
Dramatic battle silhouette in the backround that reminds me of nearly abstract 20th century prints like HAB Grieshaber's.
c. 1800's

Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tobei
oban triptych, approx. 37 x 75,7 cm

A better edition:

Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(1798 - 1861)

Prince Genji and two ladies watching the cherry-blossom.

Publisher: Mikawa-ya Tetsugorô (Santetsu)
Carver: hori ko Shoji (Tsuge Shojiro)
Censors's seal: aratame
Date: tiger 8/1854
oban tate-e triptych

Grateful thanks to Mr. W.P. for informations about the publisher.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(1798 - 1861)

Heishôgoku Nyûdô wa Go-Shirakawa-tei no otoshigo nite

Kiyomori at Miyajima arresting the sunset by incantations, so that work could proceed on his new buildings
c. 1842-1843

Publisher: Tsuji-ya Yasubei
oban tate-e triptych
ex-collection B.W. Robinson
see B.W. Robinson "Warrior Prints" plate 42,T83
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The very first print I have purchased. I am still finding new details that catch me. Great design, fascinating composition with the woman's white face right in the centre of the triptych.

Hirosada
(active c. 1820 - 60)

Jitsukawa Ensaburo I as Kizu Kansuke

Kabuki play Sao no uta kizugawa hakkei
performed at Naka theatre, 8/1849
Centre sheet of a triptych
chuban tate-e approx. 17 x 25 cm



Thanks for the information and the foto of the triptych to J.V.
Also to be found in "Hirosada - Osaka Printmaker", 1984 by The Unversity Art Museum
p.18 fig.6
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