Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)
Rustic Genji triptych - Mitsuuji viewing cherry blossoms in the Yoshiwara
ca 1851 – 1853
30 in x 14 in (Overall dimensions) color woodblock print; ōban triptych
Signed: Toyokuni ga (豊国画)
Publisher: Hamadaya Tokubei
(Marks 088 - seal 21-196)
Censor: Kinugasa and Murata
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Google maps - Yoshiwara Shrine - one of the only signs of where this famous district was
Van Gogh Museum - right-hand panel only
Jordan Schnitzler Museum of Art - left panel only
Mead Art Museum, Amhert - right-hand panel only
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden) via Ritsumeikan University - right-hand panel only
Chazen Museum of Art - the right-hand panel only This triptych is listed but not illustrated in Andreas Marks Genji's World at #G192. However the far right panel is illustrated in black and white in the Catalogue of the Van Gogh Museum's Collection of Japanese Prints by Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Willem van Gulik and Keiko van Bremen-Ito, 1991, #214, p. 172.
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There are four copies of this triptych in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Hamadaya Tokubei (濱田屋徳兵衛) (publisher)
Genji related prints (Genji-e - 源氏絵) (genre)