Dear specialists, I’m searching informations about the artist and the subject of this woodcut print. Can you help me? I wonder if it is part of a triptychon? Is it a work of Kunisada?
Best regards and thanks, Stefan Maeger
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The artist is Kunisada, here signing "Toyokuni ga". It's the center sheet of a kabuki triptych.
Depicted is Arashi Rikan III as "Yobei tsuma Ohaya" [Yobei's wife Ohaya] (与兵衛妻お早) in the play "Futatsu chōchō kuruwa nikki", performed at the Kawarazaki theater, Edo, in 3/1852. Publisher is Yamamotoya Heikichi; censor seals Fuku and Muramatsu; date seal 2ic [intercalery month]/1852.
Dear Horst, thank you a lot for your immediate help!