KUNISADA. Bijin-ga. Oiran under a porch. Colored... Lot 225

KUNISADA. Bijin-ga. Oiran under a porch. Colored woodcut. 365x260 mm. Sign: Kochoro Kunisada ga. Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi. Censorship: Kiwame. Very good impression with blind printing (nose bone, pattern on collar), glued, trimmed, rubbed and soiled, foxing. An oiran stands on a porch overlooking the snowy courtyard of a rich pleasure house. Jumping carp motif on the warm overgarment.Bijin-ga (beautiful person picture) is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women (bijin) in Japanese art, especially in woodblock printing of the ukiyo-e genre.Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, Edo, 1786-1865, was one of the most famous Ukiyo-e woodblock print designers of 19th century Japan. He was the head of one of the most important Japanese woodblock printing schools, the Utagawa School. At least one third of the prints from the 1850s signed "Kōchōrō Toyokuni ga.