Here are 4 SURIMONO from a collection I’m inventorying that have so far defied identification.
The first feels a lot like Hiroshige, and something about the facial expression in the third makes
me wonderful if it’s not a print from Japan.
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No. 4
The texts on your images are too blury for reading.... the only one I can identify is no.4 (that because I knew the diptych)
Your print is the left panel of a diptych which can be seen on the Kuniyoshi Project site (in chronological order)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Kuniyoshi
The artist is Utagawa Kuniyoshi here signing Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (一勇斎 國芳 画)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Kuniyoshi
Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII 市村
羽左衛門 as Kanonosuke Naonobu 狩野之助直信
Play: Go hiiki yakko no konoshita (御贔屓梶虎木下)
Theater: Ichimura
Date: 7th month of 1840
Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô
just for info the right panel shows Nakamura Utaemon IV as Matsunaga Taizen
PS it's not a surimono
My thanks, Lucienne. I had imaged the Kuniyoshi Oban earlier, and had grabbed it from my media stash without paying attention to it. There's a good chance that the other panel of the diptych is in the stack waiting to be catalogued.
Here's the link to Kuniyoshi Project
http://www.kuniyoshiproject.com/Actor%20triptychs%201840,%20Part%20I%20(1-8).htm